VISITING ZOOLOGIST
LECTURER FROM OXFORD. INTERESTED IN FOREST LIFE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, . This Day. An arrival by the Awatea today was Dr R. N. Chrystal, forest entomologist and lecturer in forest zoology at the Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford, which has been in existence since 1925. His main object is to see something of the New Zealand forests, and particularly to look into the insect side of them. Some years ago he was responsible for scientific work in connection with a parasite' sent out to deal with the wood wasp, which was attacking the pinus insignis, and in the course of his investigation he made a special film of the parasite, and this should be in Wellington. A. number of fishing rods evident in his gear he explained to be only incidental. “But when one comes to New Zealand and is a keen fisherman, it is rather a pity not to try to get some fishing, in,”. Dr Chrvstal observed. He was. met by Mr T. T.. C. Burch, of the State Forest Service. who studied under him in 1926...
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1938, Page 8
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