BOTANICAL RESEARCH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22247, 23 October 1935, Page 5

BOTANICAL RESEARCH

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD TOURS ON THE CONTINENT ' [FROM OUR OWN COKRESPONDI3NT] LONDON, S;pt. 28 Miss Lucy M. Cranwell, botanist at tho War Memorial Museum, Auckland, has been having a moro than usually interesting round of travel since she arrived in England in July. On one of two important trips she visited Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Scotland, the English Lake District and West Yorkshire, and on another trip of shorter duration she went to Holland and Germany. While in Holland Miss Cranwell attended, as delegate, the sixth International Botanical Congress, which was held in Amsterdam early in September, and afterwards she was present at the imperial Congress in London. Both congresses were largely attended, there being over 1000 delegates at Amsterdam. Jn that centre there were numerous lectures, discussions and trips to experimental stations, herbaria and botanical gardens. Tho week spent in Germany was devoted mainly to tho Munich Botanical Gardens, which cater equally for popular and scientific tastes and include a wonderful teaching museum, built up by tho late Professor Karl Kitter von Goebel. This contains much New Zealand material obtained bv Goebel himself when he was in the Dominion in 1898, or through Dr. Leonard Cockayne. In addition* visits to the peat bogs and lower slopes of the Bavarian Alps were made with Professor Helmuth Gams, of Innsbruck. After a trip down the Rhine, Miss Cranwell met Miss L. B. Moore, of the Zoological Department of Auckland University College, at Bonn, and travelled with her to England, via Cologne and Elushing. Since then Miss Cranwell has been working on New Zealand material at the Kew and British Museum herbaria. She intends to spend the remainder of her stay abroad', studying in Stockholm, at the invitation of Professor Lennart von Post. Miss Moore, who was with Miss Cranwell on a number of her trips, concentrated on zoological displays and the study of marine animals. She is now working at the British Museum of Natural History and will probably go next to the Plymouth Marine Biological Station.