ETHNOLOGY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16408, 31 December 1918, Page 6

ETHNOLOGY.

MR H. D. SKINNER APPOINTED LECTURER. T* \ (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN, December 30. At a special meeting of the Otago University Council lield to-day, Mr H. D. Skinner, 8.A., IXC.H., was appointed lecturer on ethnology. The appointment was rendered possible by the generosity of a Dunedin citizen, who wishes to remain anonymous, and who has contributed half the salary or the lecturer for five years. Mr Skinner, who is the only son ot Mr W. H. Skinner, Crown Lands Commissioner for Canterbury, was born in New Plymouth 32 years ago, and educated at Nelson College. He attended the law lectures at Victoria College, "Wellington, but later abandoned law and graduated B.A f . at the Otago University in 1912. He also won the Geoffrey Parker Memorial Prize. At the time that war broke out he was teaching at the Palmerston North High School. He joined the N.Z.E.F. as a private, and left New Zealand with the Fourth Reinforcements. He landed on Gallipoli at the end of Mav, was wounded, and received tho D.C.M. It was in the August fighting that lie was "knocked out." After taking his discharge in England in 1917 he entered Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded the Charles Darwin prize for an essay on "An Aspect of Maori Art. ' He took a course in anthropology, and submitted for the diploma, tho awarding of which has not yet , announced. a dissertation on Tho Material Culture of the Moriori." Mr Skinner kert terms for a Research 8.A., for which he lins to submit another dissertation. He returned to Jsew Zealand Tecentlv.