New Lincoln Professor

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30941, 23 December 1965, Page 1

New Lincoln Professor

Dr. T. M. Morrison, reader in plant science at Lincoln College, has been appointed to the new chair in horticulture at the college.

Professor Morrison said yesterday that it was hoped that the horticultural industry might be interested in research and diploma teaching in the university in muclr the same way as the farming industry was interested in agricultural education in the university. Aged 40, Professor Morrison was born at Inchclutha, South Otago. He is the son of a farmer, and the family is still farming in the district. He

attended the South Otago High School and spent a year in the Fleet Air Ann in Britain in 1944-45. Professor Morrison tool: I bachelor of science and master I of science degrees at the University of Otago, completing the latter under a Proudfoot scholarship in experimental science. While a part-time lecturer at the university in 1954 he became a doctor of philosophy. Subsequently he worked with the Soil Bureau of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in Wellington for three years as plant experimentalist. During this period he was concerned with the growth of vegetables in Cook Island coral sands and

of kumaras in Niue Island soil and developed an easy method of growing vegetables in expanded perlite. Professor Morrison then returned to Otago for two years as lecturer in botany b'efore coming to Lincoln six years ago. He was initially a senior lecturer in plant science at Lincoln, and since last year has been a reader in plant science. While he was at Lincoln College he spent a year in Britain under a Nuffield travelling fellowship.