AUSTRALIAN ZOOLOGIST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22580, 19 November 1936, Page 13

AUSTRALIAN ZOOLOGIST

STUDY OF BUTTERFLIES SPECIMENS 165 YEARS OLD Looking forward with interest to the meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, to be held in Auckland in January, the honorary general treasurer, Dr. G. A. Waterhouse, of Sydney, arrived by the Rangitata yesterday from London, after attending the meeting of the British Association as a delegate from his organisation. Dr. Waterhouse spent some time at the British Museum studying the butterflies of Australia and the South Pacific. The collection at the Australian Museum, Sydney, which he made, is the finest exhibit of Australian butterflies but the historic specimens in England aro full of interest to the naturalist. Some Hue collections were made by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Waterhouse saw the specimens caught by him during Captain Cook's first voyage over 160 years ago. They were in a good state of preservation. The early French voyagers also brought back many specimens as they all carried naturalists, and some of these butterflies were sent from Paris for inspection.

Honorary treasurer of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, a member of the executive of the Australian National Research Council and a trustee of the Australian Museum, Dr. Waterhouse will deliver the presidential address in the zoology section of the meeting in January. He will leare for Australia shortly.