DEATH OF PROFESSOR PARKER
A GREAT BIOLOGIST. [BY telegraph.—press ASSOCIATION.] :■ Dunedin, Monday. Dr. Thomas Jeffrey Parker, Professor of Biology ab Otago University, died at Warrington on Sunday morning from diabetes, He was 74 years of age. -He received the degree of Doctor of Science from his alma mater in 1892, the regulation being relaxed so that lie had not to proceed to England to get it. In conjunction with Dr. flaswell, of Sydney University, he has been for the past few years engaged on a compendious work in zoology, the last proof sheets leaving his hands a few wcoks before death, Those who have seen tlie work believe it will remove the reproach that English textbooks - were translations from the German. \
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10595, 9 November 1897, Page 5
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