BANKS LECTURE
Tho concluding official function of the National Horticultural _ Conference, which is now being held in this city, will bo the annual Banks lecture of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture, inaugurated in 1926 in memory _ of Sir Joseph Banks, the famous botanist who accompanied Captain Cook’s first exploring expedition. The lecture will be delivered in tho Y.M.C.A. Hall, Moray place, the title being ‘ Some Aspects of tho Vegetation and Flora of tho South Island.’ The lecturer, Mr J. Scott Thomson, is well known throughout New Zealand as a pre-eminent authority on this subject. Numerous lantern slides will graphically illustrate the lecture.
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Evening Star, Issue 21935, 23 January 1935, Page 5
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103BANKS LECTURE Evening Star, Issue 21935, 23 January 1935, Page 5
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