BOTANISTS WANTED
VISITING SCIENTIST'S OPINION (By Telegraph— Special to "The Mail") CHRISTCHURCH, 29th July. "There are great opportunities for all kinds of biological students in New Zealand, I should think," remarked Dr. W. A. Sledge, 8.A., Ph.D., in an interview to-day. "I do not know whether this is appreciated in the colleges. They are only just waking up to the. possibilities 6f this branch of science. At home where the study of botany and zoology is now coming along wolf, chemistry, physics, and engineering have been overcrowded, whereas Leeds University has received in the last fewyears thirty-five applications for trained botanists, which could not be supplied simply because there were not the trained men. There is a real demand for trained botanists." Dr. Sledge, who is a lecturer at Leeds University, will spend five months here, with Canterbury College as his headquarters, getting a 'general idea of the vegetation of the country, doing research work and collecting'specimens for Kew Gardens. A good many New Zealand plants are. not vet represented in that famous herbarium. I
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 30 July 1929, Page 4
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