THE SCIENTIFIC WORLD

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 25 July 1919, Page 5

THE SCIENTIFIC WORLD

DISTINGUISHED NEW ZEALANDERS.

(BY TELEGRAPH —PREBS ASSOCIATION.) NELSON, July 24. In the course of the annual Cawthorn lecture Dr Cockayne paid a glowing tribute to Nelson scientists. He referred to the work done long ago by Sir David Monro, and Messrs W. L. T. Travers, and Sinclair, the last mentioned of whom was drowned while_ conducting research work in the Rangitata River. Coming to the present time, he described Miss Winifred Betts as" the most brilliant woman scientist in New Zealand, while Sir Ernest Rutherford (an old boy of Nelson College) ranked1 with Sir Isaac Newton. The Rev. Dr. ''■ John Holloway, of Hokitika, who was one of the ten leading botanists in the world, was also a Nelson boy. Dr Cockayne spoke of the part Nelson ought to play in the botanical world, and, with the assistance of the Cawthorn Institute, Nelson ought to be facile principe in botany, which was a most important science for a great farming community lilte New Zealand.