Erskine Professors To Lecture At Canterbury

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30892, 27 October 1965, Page 9

Erskine Professors To Lecture At Canterbury

Three nominations of three visiting Erskine professors to lecture at the University of Canterbury were approved by the University Council yesterday. Professor R. W. Russell, professor and chairman of the department of psychology, Indiana University, will lecture in the psychology department on psycho-pharmacOlogy and the biochemistry of behaviour. Professor Russell is well known in the field of experimental psychology and has held distinguished appointments, both in Britain and the United States.

After lecturing and carrying out research at several American universities and serving in the United States Air Force for five years, he became professor of psychology at University College, London. He was executive secretary of the American Psychological Association during its period of greatest growth and for the last 10 years has been visiting professor at the University of Sydney under the auspices of the AustralianAmerican Education Foundation.

Professor Russell is expected to lecture at Canterbury for a month early next year. In June, Professor Charles Kindleberger, professor of economies at the Massachussets Institute of Technology will arrive to lecture for a month in the economics department on the problem of international liquidity and economic growth in France and Britain.

Professor Kindleberger, whose special interest are international economics, economic history and the economics of development, was resident economist with the Federal Reserve Bank, New York, from 1936 to 1939, and later with the Bank of International Settlements. He became a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System before service as a major with the United States Army from 1942 to 1945. He was chief adviser in the United States State Department on German and Austrian economic affairs from 1945 to 1948 and is a member of the Secretary of the Treasury’s advisory committee on international monetary arrangements.

Professor J. F. Bunnett, professor of chemistry at Brown University, Rhode Island, will lecture at Canterbury in 1967 on reaction mechanisms and selected topics in physical organic chemistry. Professed Bunnett held

teaching posts at Reed College and the University of North Carolina before becoming chairman of the department at Brown University in 1961. He was a Fulbright senior research fellow at University College, London, in 1950 and Guggenheim Award holder at the University of Munich in 1960.