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FAMOUS SWEDISH SCIENTIST DEAD.
Stockholm, „Očt. S. The death has taken pace of Professor Svante Arrhenius, the Swedish scientist-Reuter
TUESDAY,
HEAVENLY BODIES.
LECTURE AT THE HELENA
MAY INSTITUTE.
OCTOBER 4,
1927.
SIR ROBERT HO TUNG.
HIS ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE SCHEME.
Assisted by Iaftern slides, the A correspondent of the N. C. D. Reverend J. Kirk Maconachie de- News writes:In the report in livered a highly interesting lecture your paper Inst Tuesday of the on Heavenly Bodles, "Stars," at the proceedings at the Union Club, it Helena May Institute, last evening. was stated that Mr. Calder Mar- Svante Arrhenius, the Swedish savant, was born at Wijk near His Honour Justice J. R. Wood who for his presence, said that he had The lecturer was introduced by shall, in thanking General Duncan Upsala in February, 1859, After said that this was the first of endeavoured to persuade Sir Ro- graduating at the University of Upsala, he was, in 1884, appoint the Institute had arranged. He but Sir Robert was not able, at a series of public' lectures which bert Ho Tung to say a few words, ed lecturer on physical chemistry welcomed Mr. Maconachie and this time, to address the gather. there. A travelling scholarship
from the Swedish Academy of said that the lecturer needed no ing. "Sir Robert, however, would Sciences enabled him to continue introducing to the audience. attempt to institute another round his studies. From 1886 to 1890,
table conférence with a view to Mr. Maconachie held his audi-putting China's house in order, and he worked in the laboratories of ence in rapt attention as he point he had promised to address the W. Ostwald and Kohlrausch in ed out the names, sizes, dimensions members and their guests at a later Germany, Van t'Hoff at Amster-and positions of the various mem-date." dam and Boltzmann at Graz, Re-bers of the starry creation. Many turning to Sweden he ap- slides which showed photographic pointed Professor of Physica at reproductions of heavenly groups Stockholm University. In 1903 he invisible to the naked eye were re received the Nobel Chemistry produced and the lecturer methodi- Prize, and 2 years later took over cally explained all that the pic the direction of the physico-chemi tures stood for. cal department of the Stockholm Nobel Institute.
Was
Tung attempting to institute an- This report of Sir Robert Ho other "round table has naturally given rise to much conference" interesting speculation. But what actually was said by Mr. Calder Among other interesting re- Robert would attempt to institute Marshall was that he hoped Sir marks made by the lecturer, was another round table conference complexion on the matter entirely. one in which he questioned whe- which of course puts a different It may perhaps be stated that al- though Sir Robert Ho Tung ↳ fit and ready for any arduous task, he himself frankly does not think the warring factions are inclined towards any peaceful settlement of their differences at the present juncture or in the near future, and therefore he has no intention of setting out to endeavour to con- vene another "round table confer- ence," as he so laudably but un- successfully attempted to do in the autumn of 1924.
as much about the sun, moon and atars as the ancients did. We lived in towns and did not study the heavens as the people in aim pler times did and as is done in the country places even now.
Knowledge of Ancients.
His first work for which he re-ther in a modern age, we knew ceived his degree "On the Con- dactivity of Electrolytes" (1884) sought to show that the chemical properties of electrolytes could be deduced from their degree of con. ductivity. By 1887 he had carried his researches further and arriy ed at the theory of electrolytic dissociation according to which salts, bases and acids in solution The lecturer said that as carly tend to become, fons. He then as 250 years before the Christian investigated the conductivity of Era the ancients surmised that the flames, the influence of beams of earth went round the sun. light on
electrical discharges size of the earth was pretty through rarified air and the effect accurately determined in those of sunlight on electrical pheno- days. Continuing Mr. Maconachie mena in the atmosphere.
with the aid of slides 'showed the. names and positions of the differ- ent constellations in the heavens | and added that many of the names were of Arabic origin, as the an- cient Araba were "great astrono-
mers.
The
THE CANTONESE.
THEIR REVOLUTIONARY
SPIRIT EXTOLLED.
A number of Cantonese mer- Cantile organizations acted as hosts at a tifin held in honour of Nationalist officials on Tuesday, of last week at Shanghai.
C. C. Wu, Nationalist Foreign Among those present were Dr. Minister, Mr. Sun Fo, Minister of Finance, Mr. P. C. Wang, Minister of Commerce, Miss Soumi Tseng and Mr. Lo Hsin-yuen, Fresident of the Provisional Court. Many prominent Cantonese merchants were present.
Origin of the Universe. After inquiring into the effects of toxins and anti-toxins, he turn ed to the question of the origin and constitution of the universe. His theory excited great interest.
Of particular interest was Mr. It was that microscopic bodies of Maconachie's explanation of Capel- .00016-mm diameter could be la which he termed a dual star. driven by the force of the sun's He said that Capella was in some rays so that they overcame the what the same state of evolution force of gravitation and were re- as the sun. To the naked eye she pelled from the sun. These bodies appeared to be single and even the then flew Into space with the sun's telescope could not divide her into rays and, as certain kinds of spores two but we have discovered her can survive, a temperature of "duplicity" by the spectroscope. minus 252 degrees Centigrade-a Touching on the Milky Way, Mr. fact which Arrhenius proved by Maconachie said that one could see experiments-an exchange of or a great portion of the Milky Way ganle life between the various with the naked eye but that "the parts of the solar system appear-opera glass is well worth turning ed to be possible. He thus ar- on the sky and by this way one welcome given by the chairman, In response to the speech of rived at the conclusion that the will see a great deal more of the Mr. Lo Chin-san, Dr. Wu 'thanked entire universe is to be regarded heavenly bodies."
his fellow provincials for the as filled with the germs of life..
The ancients thought there were honour accorded him and his col- In his famous book "Ideas as to only six or seven thousand stars leagues. He also made mention of the Constitution of the Universe in the heavens, but we knew now, Cantonese merchants, their mater- the revolutionary spirit of the through the Ages" (1909) he set by the aid of the telescope and inl help in the revolutionary cause forth in detall his. views on this other modera instruments, that and their firm belief in Sun Yat- question.
they were very much out and that senism. Dr. Wu finally urged all Among his other works are the number of stars were far Chinese merchants associations to. "Electro-chemistry" (1901); "In- greater than anything they ima-keep in constant touch with the. muno-chemistry" (1906); "Theo-gined.
Government, so that whatever, was undertaken by the Government would always reflect the views of the merchant class.
ries
of Chemistry" (1906),
A few slides showing photo- "Worlds in the Making" (1908) graphs of "clusters" of stars re- Quantitative Laws in Biological vealed such vast numbers of these Chemistry" (1915); "The Destinies heavenly luminants in one group ol the Stars" (1918); and "Chemis-that to the ordinary layman, the try and Modern Life" (1918), allsight is bewildering. of which have been translated into several languages.
LOCAL ESTATE.
DONATION TO CHRISTIAN INSTITUTION.
Relation of Heavenly Bodies..
Mr. Sun Fo highly praised the Cantonese people for their heroic sacrifices and financial help which, he said, were to a large extent responsible for the success of the years. As the northerd expedition Nationalist revolution in these two had not been carried to its con- in his lecture, making comparisons elusion he expected the Cantonese and showing their relative posi-people to keep up the same splen- tions to each other. He said that did spirit they had hitherto shown. the nearest star was 270 times as
Mr. Maconaebie also touched on the sun, moon, and other planets
far away from the earth as the sun was. The light from the nearest.
star took four and a half years to thanked Mr. Maronachie for the Hongkong estate to the value of reach us, so that when we gazed trouble he had taken in preparing $65,000 was left by Mr. Johnat it, we were really looking at it the lecture and said that the Chuen-wong, late of Luguan Villa, ns it was four and half years ago. Kowloon, who died on July 23, this
Helena May Institute was greatly year. Probate has been granted stating that the audience might
Mr. Maconachie concluded by indebted to the lecturer. to his two'sons Wong Mau-lam and feel their own insignificance when Wong Cheong-lam, bath living at they remembered the mystery and Luguan Villa,
vastitude of the wonders of the There are a number of family skies. To acquire even a partial bequests in the will, and in addi-knowledge will prove the skies to tion, he jeaves $1,000 to the be far more wonderful than any treasurer of the Gospel Chapel of the material things of the earth. (the Tsing Kai Yau Chuen Fook He pointed out that the mind of Yan Tong), Kowloon City, for man was a wonder by itself. propagating the Christian doctrine and assisting poor and needy at the conclusion of the lecture, His Honour Justice J. R. Wood, Christians,
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