BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH.
HANDICAPS IN DOMINION Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Jail. 20. The biology sections conducted at the four New Zealand University Colleges were condemned to-day by Dr. A. J. Eames, Professor of Botany at Cornell University, Ithaca (New York). Dr. Eames. with his wife, has been on an extended tour of the Dominion and has made a close study of the conditions in the Universities here.
Although he knew when he arrived at Auckland last month that the biology sections at the Dominion Universities were inadequately equipped, it came as a minor shock to him to find the conditions ns bad a 6 they were, said Dr. Eames. More room and more staff were essentia] if the biology work was to be carried out efficiently, declared Dr, Eames. As things were now in New Zealand the men whose job it was to teach biology were badly handicapped; they had no opportunity to carry out the necessary research because the staffs were numerically weak and the duties of the staffs were too heavy,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 20 January 1938, Page 10
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