Study Of Productivity

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31440, 5 August 1967, Page 16

Study Of Productivity

“Productivity in the welfare of mankind”

has been adopted as

the world-wide theme of biologists’ research for the next few years. In seeking better understanding of the sea, freshwater, and land, they are developing co-ordinated techniques for more effective comparison.

The studies include the development of known and new sources of food, biological controls, and human adaptability, involving a huge range of studies aimed at the most effective co-operation of man and nature.

To advance New Zealand’s participation in these programmes Professor G. A. Knox will go overseas this month. He is head of the zoology department of the University of Canterbury, chairman of the biological sciences section of the Royal Society of New Zealand, convener of the New Zealand committee of the International Biological Programme, and chairman of the New Zealand biological sciences school syllabus revision committee.

Professor Knox will attend the sixteenth general assembly of the International Union of Biological Sciences at Montreux in Switzerland, have liaison talks at International Biological Programme headquarters in London, and make inquiries at the Univer-

sities of Oxford and British Columbia and at the British Museum. New Zealand was now widely involved in biological research in most of the fields covered by the international programme, Professor Knox said. A great deal of basic work was required. Great strides had been made’ in necessary organisation and co-ordination and work was now beginning to bear fruit