1869 Conference and Festival ready to celebrate wide range of `firsts´
(WorldNews Entertainment)

Thursday 19 September 2019 2:31pm The many important scientific, political, commercial, cultural and medical milestones reached 150 years ago are set to be explored and celebrated during the 1869 Conference and Heritage Festival, which starts in Dunedin on 25 September. University of Otago History programme Associate Professor Angela Wanhalla says 1869 featured many `firsts`, which were to have lasting historic significance. Among these were the first publication of the scientific journal Nature, the opening of the Suez Canal, presentation of the first periodic table, Paul Langerhans` discovery of pancreatic islets, and publication of John Stuart Mill`s The Subjection of Women. A hemisphere...