CROSBIE MORRISON AGAIN
HETHER Crosbie Morrison, the Australian radio naturalist, is discussing the habits' of the lamprey or the characteristics of the cabbage-white butterfly, his broadcasts are of the kind that hold children from their play and old men from the chimney corner. One of his latest recordings, played through by 2ZB for The Listener the other day, finds him as fresh as ever, after, several years of wild-life broadcasting, in his description of the coral in the Great Barrier Reef. Morrison tells many interesting things in this disc. For instance, there is no such thing as a coral insect, though school books of 50 years ago maintained that it existed and declared that it was busy all day building the great reefs. Actually, he explains, coral is the skeleton of a tiny animal, the flesh part of which rots and is washed away. He describes a visit by launch to the Great Barrier, which is 1250 miles long and 20 miles wide in parts-the largest coral reef in the world. He talks of sea anemones of brilliant ‘colour, and the marine delights to be seen with the water-telescope-which is ‘not so imposing an instrument as its name suggests. Anybody can make one from a tube or a kerosene tin, glassed in at the bottom, and sunk an inch into the water to eliminate the ripple which spoils vision. : Morrison is president of the Field Naturalists’ Club of Victoria, a member
of the Council of the Royal Society, an M.A. (Melbourne University), and lecturer in natural history to the Uni. versity Extension Board. He assisted in research on the Great Barrier for the Royal Australian Navy in 1925, and was naturalist to the first McKay Aerial Survey Expedition to Central Australia in 1930. But he is best known to New Zealanders for his radio talks on wild life, and a new series of these, The Junior Naturalists’ Club, is now being heard from 3ZB, 4ZB and 2ZA every Tuesday at 6.15 p.m. Stations 1ZB and 2ZB will present the feature shortly after December 10.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 383, 25 October 1946, Page 28
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