DARWIN MEDAL

Evening Star, Issue 20019, 9 November 1928, Page 6

DARWIN MEDAL

AWARDED TO DR COCKAYNE Press Association—By Telegraph - Copyright. LONDON. November 8. (Deceived November 9, at 9.35 a.m.) The Royal Society has awarded the Darwin Medal to a New Zealander (Dr Leonard Cockayne) for research hit.* ecological botany.—Australian Pres Association A HIGH HONOUR United Trees Association.] WELLINGTON, November 9. The Darwin Medal, which is _ accent* panted by a grant of £IOO, is given biennially in reward for work of acknowledged distinction, especially in biology, the field in which Darwin himself laboured. The award may be either to a British subject or to a foreigner and without distinction of sex. The Darwin Medal has been awarded among others, to Alfred Russell Wallace (1890), Sir J. D. Hooker (1892), T. H. Huxley (1891), Ernest Haeckel (1900), Francis Gallon (1902), August Weistnaim (1908). Francis Darwin (1912), Yves Delagc (1916), Thomas H. Morgan (1924). Duckinfield Henry Scott (1926). Dr Cockayne's is the twentieth medal awarded.

LDr C Jockayne is Honorary Botanist to the State Forest service. He was horn in England, and arrived in New Zealand in 1881. He was on tho teaching stall of Tokomairiro District High School from 1881 to 1885. He started a private experimental station in 1882, introducing thousands of orchard trees, shrubs, and herbs, and since 1888 has devoted all his time to research of the flora and vegetation of New Zealand, and exploring botnnicaliy ' most parts of the dominion, including the Chatham and sub-Antarctic islands. From 190(3 he made important botanical surveys for the Lands and Survey Department. In 1918 ho was engaged by the Department of Agriculture to carry out rc< searches with a view to improving tussock land, and regrassing experiments in Central Otago. He has carried on much other work, and has received many honours. He is a. Fellow of the Linmean Society, and also a fellow of the Royal Society. His publications include ‘ New Zealand Plants and Their Story, ‘ Vegetation of New Zealand Plants,’ and ‘ The Cultivation of New Zealand Plante.’]