A GLOWING TRIBUTE.
Dll HOLLOWAY’S HIGH POSITION |PSR PrtCSS ASSOCIATION. —COPYBIGHI.i | NELSON, This Day. ! In the course of the annual Cawtliorne lecture, Dr Cockayne paid a glowing tribute to Nelson scientists. Ho referred to the work done long ago by Sh' David Monroe, T. W. L. Travers and Sinclair, (who was drowned while conducting research work in Rangitaka river). Coming to the present time lie J described Miss Winifred Betts as the ; most brilliant woman scientist in New ‘ Zealand, while Sir Ernest Rutherford, J (an old boy of Nelson College), ranked * with Sir Isaac Newton. Rev. Dr. Hoiloway of Hokitika, (who is one of the 1 ten leading botanists of the world), was ! also a Nelson boy. j Dr Cockayne spoke of the part Nel-' son ought to play in the botanical world, and with assistance of the Cawthorne Institute, Nelson ought to be facile princeps in botany, which was. 11 the most important in sciences for a * great farming community such as New c Zealand, f
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1919, Page 3
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167A GLOWING TRIBUTE. Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1919, Page 3
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