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New Zealand Tablet, 16 March 1911, Page 497

Writing with reference to the organisation of a relief expedition by the Rev. Father Shaw, M. 5.11.,.11., to proceed .to New Guinea to search for the missing explorers, the Catholic Press says: —In Australia the Catholic clergy have four brilliant representatives in the field of science. Father Archibald Shaw, of Randwick, who is a Missionary of the Sacred Heart, is the greatest expert in wireless telegraphy that we have in the Commonwealth; while Father J. Milne Curran is our greatest practical geologist. He is at present superintending the running of a plant of his own devising; for dealing with sulphides in a. totally new way, as well as acting as adviser to the Minister for Works. He was for several years Government Geologist. At Riverview College, Father' Pigot, S.J., has the finest seismograph in the Southern Hemisphere for recording tremors in any part of the earth. Father Slattery, CM., who is now local superior of the Vincentians at Ashfield, is in the first flight of Australian scientists, and St. Stanislaus' College, Bathurst, where he was teaching until recently, has the finest chemical laboratory in any educational institution in Australia. It was at Bathurst that Father Slattery was the first to make practical experiments with wireless telegraphy in this country; also the first to practically demonstrate the use of the X-Rays.