ACADEMIC SERVICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22400, 22 April 1936, Page 15

ACADEMIC SERVICE

PROFESSOR W. B. BEN HAM RETIREMENT 'NEXT YEAR [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] DUNEDIN, Tuesday It was announced at a meeting of the Otago University Council this afternoon that the senior professor, Dr. W. B. Benham, professor of biology and curator of the museum, would retire next year from active service. At the same meeting the resignation of Dr. W. Newlands from the teaching staff of the medical school was accepted with regret. Dr Newlands has been associated with the sqhool since 1907.

Professor Benham, who has held th« chair of biology at the University of Otago since 1898, was born at Isleworth, Middlesex, in 1860. He was educated at Marlborough College, England, and subsequently took the degree of D.Sc. at London University and the M.A. degree at Oxford. From 1891 to 1898 he was Aldrichian demonstrator at Oxford and for several years was lecturer in biology at Bedford College for Women. He was a winner of the Hutton Memorial Medal and a former governor of the New Zealand Institute. He i» the author of several zoological memoirs and monographs. * Dr. Newlands was born at Maheno, Otago, in 1876. and received his early education at the Otago Boys' High School. He then proceeded to the University of Otago, where he graduated M.A., and subsequently studied at Edinburgh University, where he took the degree of M.B. Ch. B. in 1902. He became an F.R.C.S. in 1904. He was for periods a surgeon at the Birmingham Children's Hospital and the Cumberland Royal Infirmary. He arrived in Dunedin in 1905. For many years he has been lecturer in clinical surgery at the medical school and has served on the Otago Hospital Board and th« University Senate.