MATHEMATICS LECTURER
OTAGO UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENT Dr Harold Silverstone, M.A., Ph.D. (Edin.) lias been appointed assistant lecturer in mathematics at the University of. Otago and will take up his duties next, month. He is at present employed in the Correspondence School section of the Education Department. A son of Mr Mark Silverstone, Dr Silverstone was horn in Dunedin and educated at the Otago Boys' High School. He graduated with first class honours in pure and applied mathe-
matics at the Otago University, and then studied under Dr A. C. Aitken at the Edinburgh University. He gained his Ph.D. degree in statistics._ His most notable publication. since returning to New Zealand was undertaken at the request of Dr Helen Deem, the medical adviser to the Plunket Society. Dr Silverstone assisted with the compilation of the significant statistics in an analysis of the growth of New Zealand infants during their first year of life, and the findings were published in the New Zealand Medical Journal under the joint authorship of Dr Deem and Dr Silverstone. they were subsequently republished in booklet form for. general circulation in the Dominion and abroad.
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Evening Star, Issue 25717, 14 February 1946, Page 4
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