SCIENCE CONFERENCE

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19664, 26 August 1935, Page 7

SCIENCE CONFERENCE

THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION

TO OPEN SEPTEMBER 4.

AN INTERESTING PROGRAMME.

(Omcial Wireless.)

RUGBY, Aug- 24. Arrangements are complete for the meeting of the British Association at Norwich from September 4 to 11, for which a large number of visitors, Including many from overseas, are expected. The association met last in Norwich in 1868. The professor of geology at the Imperial College, London, Professor W. W. Watts, will deliver the presidential address on the form, drift and rhythm of continents. , In celebration of the centenary of S the landing of Charles Darwin on the Galapagos Islands, zoologists will discuss species in the light of modern knowledge. The economic section has a programme of topical interest. Including papers on economic nationalism and foreign trade, the financial and economic results of State control of agriculture, and an attempt to set out the Chronology of the world crisis. This section also will interest itself in many social problems In relation to standards of life. Other ltenie bearing on current problems will be a study of the causes of skidding on roads, and exhibitions of scientific aids to management in industry.