N.Z. INSTITUTE

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1929, Page 5

N.Z. INSTITUTE

SCIENCE AWARDS

HECTOR MEDAL TO AIR G. Af THOMSON.

AUCKLAND, January 2*

Awards' to phnninant New Zealand scientists for valuable research they have conducted were confirmed at the annual meeting of’ the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute. The Hector modal in zoology was awarded to the Hon. G. Al. Thomson, Ar.K.C.. member of the Otago Institute. on the recommendation of Mr G. 'A’. Hudson Wellington Philosophical Society, for his entomological research. Air Thomson saated Air Hudson, had devoted time and money to Ins work, and he had made a great success of it. Air Hudson was described by Piolcssor Kirk as a keen and independent worker. 'The recommendation of the committee of. Hamilton award That no award be made was adopted. ’The report of the Standing Committee made reference to high honours from overseas which had been bestowed during the year on two members of the Board of Governors. At , the request of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the advancement of science, the Mueller medal was presented to Dr L. Cockayne, in re.ognitiim of his researches in botany. A further honour had been bestowed in the award of the Darwin medal, presented by the Royal Society, London. Dr Cockayne bad the distinction, of being the first N ew Zealander, and probably the first scientist in the Southern Hemisphere, to gain such a distinction. It w.as further recorded that Professor Coleridge Farr bad been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, London.