A case of insects, at present on view at the Dominion Museum, Wellington, forms an unusual but apt memorial to Dr. R. J. Tillyard, former chief entomologist at the Cawthron Institute. The case has been arranged by Mr W. H. Hemingway, honorary entomologist at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, as a tribute to the memory of Dr. Tillyard. It is being circulated on loan to other New Zealand museums. Dr. Tillyard was a world authority on insect life. He was well known in New Zealand, having worked at the Cawthron Institute for seven years before taking up an appointment as chief Commonwealth entomologist. He was killed in a motor accident near Goulburn in 1937. The case contains a large number of insect specimens, set out to explain to the layman the principles of scientific classification of insects, which is necessary as a foundation for their study and control.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 February 1940, Page 2
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