LOSS OF A SCIENTIST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19798, 19 November 1927, Page 10

LOSS OF A SCIENTIST.

AUSTRALIAN APPOINTMENT.; DR. TILLYARD'S NEW POST. COMMONWEALTH ENTOMOLOGIST [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Friday. Advice has been received that Dr. R. J. Tillyard, of the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, has been offered, and has accepted, the position of Commonwealth entomologist. Dr. Tillyard is at present in Australia, and is due back shortly in New Zealand. Dr. Tillyard, who has had a distinguished scientific career, has become very well known in connection with his researches into the control of noxious weeds by means of insects. Under his direC" tion very up-to-date insectaries at the Cawthron Institute have lately been erected, and it is hoped to complete experiments in the control of blackberry and other noxious weeds. "Hie departure of Dr. Tillyard, who will leave the Dominion early jiext year, although a great loss, will not put an end to this important work. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research is taking steps to see that it is carried on. As the New Zealand Government representative, Dr. Tillyard attended the Imperial Conference of Entomology in 1920, and he has to his credit many important publications, one of the latest being a very valuable and comprehensive treatise on the insects of Australia and New Zealand. His original research papers on entomological subjects number well over a hundred. The new inseetary and biological laboratory at the Cawthron Institute, designed to deal with extended researches into noxious weeds parasites, has now been completed. The Dominion now has a firstclass entomological research station, which compares more than favourably with similar research stations established elsewhere in the Empire. The official opening of the inseetary and laboratory at the Cawthron Institute will take place on December 13 on the occasion of the visit to Nelson of the Secretary of State for the Dominions, Mr. L. S. Amery. ACCEPTANCE OP RESIGNATION. REGRET OF THE TRUSTEES. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] NELSON, Friday. At a meeting of the Cawthron Institute trustees to-day the director, Professor Easter field, stated that he had received a cablegram from Dr. Tillyard asking permission to resign his position at the institute, as he had accepted the position of chief Commonwealth entomologist under the Commonwealth Department of Science and Industry. The resignation was subject to the noxious weeds control work at the institute being safeguarded. Professor Easterfield further stated that he understood buildings were to be erected for Dr. Tillyard at a very high cost, and that the annual grant for entomological work would be approximately twice as great as the total income of the Cawthron Institute Trust Board. Dr. Tillyard's resignation was accepted with regret, and it was decided to congratulate him upon his new appointment.