VISITING BOTANIST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21404, 31 January 1933, Page 10

VISITING BOTANIST

WORK IN DOMINION VETERAN AMERICAN SCIENTIST Keen to make his first investigation of Ne\V Zealand's native flora, Professor William Trelease, a veteran American botanist, arrived at Auckland by the Mon-. terey yesterday. lie is professor emeritus of botany at tie University of Illinois. Accompanied by Mrs. Trelease, he hopes to spend several months in the Dominion. "I am exceptionally keen to see tie mountain plants in the Southern Alps before it is too late," Professor Trelease said, "and I ar.i also looking forward to inspecting the forest-fringed glaciers, I hope to go as far south as Stewart Island before returning north to visit the Tongariro National Park and other spots of botanical interest. I shall most certainly visit the Waipoua Kauri Forest before my departure." _ . Dr. Trelease is known among scientists principally for his studies of such exclusively American group of plants as the century plants and yuccas, although lie is at present occupied with research among the true peppers, or piperaceae, of the tropics. His nane is commemorated in ths scientific names of many plants and a few. weeks ago he was informed that a movement was on foot to attach his name to a peak in the Rocky Mountains of. Colorado, about 12.500ft-. high and not far distant from the lofty peaks bearing the names of his great botanical predecessor*.