BIOLOGICAL STUDY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 193, 15 August 1936, Page 10

BIOLOGICAL STUDY.

MATERIAL IN NEW ZEALAND. SCIENTIST'S VISIT. Material for biological research is sought in New Zealand by the Rev. Dr. Gilbert Ralini, professor of biology at the Fribourg University, Switzerland, who is in the Dominion for a short visit. He left for Rotorua and the South Island by the Rotorua express this morning. Dr. Ralun is a Benedictine monk who was born at Bonn, Germany, where lie studied biology and medicine.

His present mission is the collection of a species of animals called nematodes, the importance of which he described in an interview. His; present tour, which has taken him to America, Faster Island, Palestine, Egypt, India, Tibet, Java and Australia, is under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute, of New York. After he leaves New Zealand he will go to Japan and China, returning thence to America.

Dr. Ralim was much interested vin the Faster Island exhibits at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, V.'hich lie 'saw yesterday, and he compliifjented V. F. Fisher, ethnologist at : tlie 011 his arrangement of them. He also took a moving picture of the tuatara lizards which are kept on the. roof of the museum for observation purposes by Mr. A. B. W. Powell, conchologist at that institution.

Dr. Ralun, who is a doctor of medicine, was also impressed with the Slater Misericordiae Hospital, which he visited yesterday.

Lust night Dr. Ealmi was the £uest of the St. Benedict's" Presbytery, while this morning lie was farewollod at the train hy the Rev. Father M. J. Lavella and Mr. I'. Hackett, representing ( the Auckland University Catholic Club.