Dr. Pilgrim Now Second Zoology Professor

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30934, 15 December 1965, Page 20

Dr. Pilgrim Now Second Zoology Professor

Dr. R. L. C. Pilgrim, reader in zoology at the University of Canterbury and a member of the department for about 20 years, has been appointed second professor to continue his work with Professor G. A. Knox, the head of the department.

Dr. Pilgrim is noted for his research on the sensory and nervous systems of animals, which has some application to human systems, and for his general work in animal phy-

stology. During leave overseas he has djoeronciderable laboratories in the United States, Britain and Italy. Dr. Pilgrim was educated at Christchurch Boys* High School, graduated bachelor of science at the University of Canterbury in 1942, and won the Charles Cook (Warwick House) memorial scholarship and the Shirtdiffe graduate bursary. After serving in the Pacific with the New Zealand Army Medical Corps, Dr. Pll-

grim worked at Buakura Animal Research Station before he was appointed an assistant lecturer in zoology in Canterbury. In 1948 he graduated master of science with first-class honours in zoology, and was awarded a national research scholarship for study at the University of London where he won his Ph.D. in 1951. Ho was promoted to senior lecturer in 1954 and reader in 1963. The United States Academy of Sciences awarded Dr. Pilgrim a fellowship in 1958 on which he studied at the California Institute of Technology and tiie University of Washington. In 1963 he was awarded a Commonwealth universities* exchange grant on which he did research into marine biology in Britain and Italy.