SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1922, Page 8

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.

AMERICAN PARTY ARRIVES. Members of a. scientific expedition from the State University of lowa arrived in Auckland on Saturday by the Makura, en route to Australia. The party will remain in Auckland for about a week. Later they will visit Wanganui and New Plymouth and the Southern centres. About six weeks in all will be spent in the Dominion, before they go on to Australia. The party consists of Professor C. C. Nutting, head of the Zoological Department, Professor A. O. Thomas, geologist and palaeontologist, Professor Dayton Stoner, entomologist and ornithologist, Mrs. Stoner, and Mr. Waldo S. Glock, assistant geologist. Professor R. B. Wylie, head of the Botanical Department, remained at Fiji, where the party have spent the last month, and will come on to Auckland by the Navua. The lowa University during the past thirty years has sent out many such expeditions. The advantages of carrying out scientific research in other lands he.s long been recognised by the heads of the University. Expeditions had been sent to the West Indies, the Arctic regions, and to Cuba, but this is the first occasion an expedition has been dispatched south of the Equator. The native fauna and flora of New Zealand is also to be fully investigated before the party return to America. There are no fewer than 6000 students at the University