SCIENCE CONGRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1937, Page 10

SCIENCE CONGRESS.

EMINENT VISITORS.

IN AUCKLAND NEXT WEEK.

VERSATILE PRESIDENT. Some eminent Australian scientists are represented in the zoology section of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science which is to open its sessions in Auckland next week.

The president, Dr. G. A. Waterhouse, who is also the honorary general treasurer of the whole association, besides [ being a Doctor of Science and a Bachelor of Engineering, is one of Australia's foremost authorities on Commonwealth butterflies. He was born on May 21, 1H77, and was educated at the Sydney (!rammar School and the University of Sydney. He entered the service of the Royal Mint, Sydney, in 1900. Subsequently lie became a trustee of the Australian Museum, and president iiju, 1030, and presented his extensive collections of butterflies to the museum. He is the author of many scientific papers and a book on Australian butterflies. He has just returned frofh a tour of English and Continental museums.

Dr. G. A. Currie is senior research officer, division of economic entomology, at Canberra. He is a specialist in the' control of noxious weeds by means of insect parasites.

Mj"- G. P- Whittey i s ichthyologist (authority op fish) at the Australian Museum, and has published a good deal about the fteh of Australian waters. Mr. Whittey is a vice-president of the zoological section.

Mr. E. LeG. Troughton, also a vicepresident of the zoological section, joined the service of the Australian Museum as a cadet in January, 1908, and rose to be appointed mammalogist there in 1919. He is also interested in entomology. Mr. Troughton has collected extensively in Australia and at Lord Howe. Island. He has many scientific papers to his credit.

TV D . r \ A * J - Nic holson is chief of the Division of Economic Entomology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research at Canberra.