CAWTHRON INSTITUTE
MISS CURTIS'S APPOINTMENT.
Miss Kathleen Curtis, M.A. (N.Z.), M.Sc. (T/md.), who has been appointed mycologist, or plant pathologist, to the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, has had a distinguished career, and the trustees of the institute arc stated to havo been much pleased at being able to secure her services. Miss Curtis, who is a New Z.ealandcr. took first-class honours in botanv. was senior university scholar in. botany in IIIIR, was exhibition 6Cienco foholar in botanv. took tho diploma of tho Imperial College- of Scieuco and Technology, London, and was awarded the Huxlc'v memorial gold medal for research. She hai published a work on the wart disease in potatoes, and has a long paper on this subject m tho Annals of Botanv" for January. Miss Curtis was returning to London where work wa= offered her by the British Hoard of Agriculture, who are anxiouß to carry on further research into the diseases of potatoes.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 6
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154CAWTHRON INSTITUTE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 6
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