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Show SCIENTISTS ARE- ; INSPECTING ALL ; SCENIC WONDERS Delegates to Convention Visit Vis-it Mines at Bingham, See Canyons and Wind Up at ' I the Hermitage I Casting aalda tha worrlea and earea of twa atrenuoua convention sessions tha membera of tha American Aeaocla-i Aeaocla-i lion for tha Advancement of Bdenca i and It a affiliated societies, took a peep at tha eoenle wondera of Utah today. , One party, comprlalng eaveral sutoano. biles, left at o'clock thla morning to vlall the copper mlnee at Bingham. Other partlea headed for Tarley'a can- ' yon and Big Cottonwood. Tha laat , aoenla trip will be held thla evening , with an auto tour to tha Hermitage la Owden canyon. Tha actual work of the convent Inn came to a cloae laat night with Dr. James Harvey Roblnaon'a addreee o "The Humanlalng of Knowledge" and ' the eelectinn of K. C. Ktanklln. pro. feaaor of ehemletry of Laland Stanford university, aa tha next prealdent to replace re-place tha retiring prealdent. Dr. Bar- ' . ton Warren Evermann. Dr. Roblnaon, one of America's noted hletorlana and now director of tha achool of aoclal reaearch, told a large audience at Barratt hall tha meana to , reconcile tha aclentlflc and humanlatto I frame of mind In the youth of the na- tlnn. He aald. -Modern aclentlflc re-eearch. re-eearch. In aplte of Ita profeaaed aloof. neaa and dlaregard of human feellnea and motives, haa succeeded In unfold. Ing to our gaae so new a world In It origin, development, workings and pos-slblltlea pos-slblltlea of control In the interests of human welfare that practically all tha older poetic and religious Ideaa have to be fundamentally revlaed or reinterpreted. reinter-preted. Scientific knowledge IngenL . ouely applied and utilised by Inventor and engineers, haa with the assistance of bualnes men and financiers, metamorphosed meta-morphosed our environment and ottr relatlona with our fellow men. Our notions of our own nature ara being ao altered that should we discreetly apply our Increasing knowledge of tha . workings of tha mind and the feeling a far mora successful technique might finally emerge for the regulation rt the emotlona than any hitherto ua gested.". i n DISCUSS! IVOLUTION. -Speaking n volution, "Dr. Robinson aald, "Serious misunderstanding haa resulted from the report that men of , clnnoa are giving up Darwinism.' that Darwinism' la dead. Thla has pusaled thoae who supposed that avolutloa waa a well substantiated aeeumptlon and haa filled with a somewhat malicious Joy those who have advocated th scripture. To the public, Darwinism means evolution, man' monkey origin, as It la popularly expressed nm th palentologiat and the biologist Darwinians Dar-winians does not mean the theory of man's descent from monkey, which waa long before the publication of th rigln of th Specie,' but Is eon-fined eon-fined to the Ingenious theories which Darwin so patiently worked out to account ac-count for the facta of evolution." Outstanding, features In tha discus- -Ion yeaterday afternoon were tha ' symposium on the Colorado river basin and a cloaeup of weather forecasts and It effeot upon the crope and agriculture agricul-ture of the Western stales, Another discussion, arise la th meeting of the metorologlcal . society regarding the habitation of Venus. Dr. Charles K. m. John, aetronomer of Mt. ' Wilson observatory, haa declared that spectroscopic analysis ahow that neither oxygen nor water vapor, necessary neces-sary to life, la present In the atmosphere atmos-phere of the slater planet. Responding, Respond-ing, Alfred Rordame, local meteorologist, meteorolo-gist, cams Is tha rescue of the Venu-elan Venu-elan and said that there may or may not be Inhabitant on Venue. . H claimed that tha clouds which surround sur-round their sphere reflect the light In such a manner that the apectroscop la unable to discern what is below them. IMPORTANT DISCUSSION. During the convention the moat Important Im-portant discussions were held over th Colorado river basin, which was tha main question of general Interest to be brought forward. Kvery year a topic of impressive public Interest la taken up by scientists In all branches of ac tlvlty and since the Colorado basin la now In the public ey It cam in for part of the discussion. Ths most comprehensive explanations explana-tions of Ita formations and the magnl-tuda magnl-tuda of the engineering difficulties and overcoming of obstacles In the pro. posed work waa mads by Dr. Bailey Willis, professor of geology at Stanford university. |