HECTOR MEMORIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1918, Page 7

HECTOR MEMORIAL.

4WARDED TO ■MR. T. F. OHBESEMAN. It was announced at Monday's meeting' of the New Zealand Institute that the Hector Memorial Prize for 1918 hid been awarded to Mr. T. F. Cheeseman, W of the oldest and most successful nf the Domjnion's botanists. The members of the Award Committee reported that having carefully considered the claims of all botanists who, in their opinion, might be entitled to receive the Hector Memorial Medal and Prize, they have unanimously decided to recommend Mr. T. F. Cheeseman, P.L.S., F.Z.S., as the recipient of the award. This they had done on the, grounds not only of the great excellence of Mr. Cheeseman's published researches nhotogeography, and floral biology, which had been carried on without a break since the early 'seventies of the last century, but also because of the supreme influence of his work, especially of his admirable manual of the New Zealand flora upon hotanical investigation throughout the Dominion. Previous holders of the memorial are: 111-2, L. Cockayne, Ph.D., F.L.S., F.R.S., for researches in New Zealand botany; 1013, T. H. Easterfield, M.A., Ph.D., for researches in chemistry; ISIM>, Elsdon Best, for researches in New Zealand ethnology; 1915, P. Marshall, M.A., D.'Sc., F.G.S., for researches in New Zealand geology; 1916, Sir Ernest Rutherford, F.R.S.' for researches in physics; 11917, Charles Chilton, M.A., <D.Ss., for 'researches in zoology.