BOTANICAL RESEARCH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20594, 19 June 1930, Page 12

BOTANICAL RESEARCH.

CONGRESS IN LONDON.

DR. H. ALLAN TO ATTEND,

[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] PALMERSTON NORTH, Wednesday.

Dr. 11. H. Allan, systematic botanist at the plant research station. Palmerston North, has received instructions to attend the fifth International Botanical Congress, which will be opened in London on August 16, and continued at Cambridge.

Dr. Allan will be the guest of Dr. A. W. Hill, F.R.S., director of-the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, first at Kew, and then at King's College, Cambridge. Dr. Allan is. to follow Dr. L. Drels, head of the Berlin Botanic Gardens, in opening a discussion on geographical distribution in relation to concept of species. Recent botanical research in New Zealand has a very distinct and impoftant bearing on the problems to be discussed. Dr. Allan will place before the congress the present stage reached in the study of the wild hybrids of New Zealand, iuteresit in which has become world-wide. As 11 representative of the Department of Industrial and Scientific Research, Dr. Allan will exercise a vote in all matters of nomenclature that may come before the congress.

Dr. .Allan will pay special attention to tlio question of noxious weeds and their treatment by various methods, including attempts at control by entomological means, and will investigate the work of plant breeding stations, especially in relation to strain work on grasses and clovers, in Britain and on the Continent.

Part of Dr. Allan's expenses while abroad will bo borne by the Empire Marketing Board, under whose auspices he will work while in Britain. He will be absent from New Zealand , for six months. He will sail by the Marama on Juno 20.