EDUCATION IN AMERICA

Press, Issue 29236, 21 June 1960, Page 8

EDUCATION IN AMERICA

Observations Of Lecturer .

“The most outstanding Ibiag about American education b tM so much of it is supported te private donations—becauae donations to education are tex-drse/* said Dr. R. L. C. Pilgrim, • senior lecturer in zoology at the University of Canterbury, who recently returned from an 18-montk stay in the United States. Dr. Pilgrim spent most of hii time doing research at the Callfornia Institute of Technology. He was financed by a grant fraa the National Academy ct Sciences, Washington. He said that the amounts gria by some persons to atacatioa were quite staggering, OrMfjpw son alone made a gnot of 3,000,000 dollars while he teW In California. A difference tie American university ays|fl*d those in. other countries WB Ite tremendous number of alieafcwbo were working in the tmited States, said Dr. Pilgrim. Tte United States encouraged Icientists from all over the world to travel to America to take up either permanent jobs, or to work on specific projects for a opacified time. The research work done Ry Dr. Pilgrim was on the seQsory physiology of Crustacea. Wte®** gallons in this field havr > aa® carried on since about HO Mt in California Dr. Pilgrim and tte two Dutch biologists with he was working, opened 9-wM* field in experimental tedmiv* The new technique would Jte « value to research workers in «u fields of sense organ physiology, said Dr. Pilgrim. Three papig giving the results of his will be published soon.