HONOUR FOR BOTANIST
WORK RECOGNISED SWEDISH SOCIETY'S ACTION [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Thursday The honour of election as a corresponding member of the Swedish Phytogeographical Society has been conferred on Dr. H. H. Allan, New Zealand Government botanist. Dr. Allan was elected at the same meeting of the society that conferred the honour of Dr. W. It. B, Oliver, director of the
Dominion Museum, and the recognition is because of published researches into the ecology of New Zealand vegetation, and valuable assistance given the president of the society, Dr. W. E. du Reitz, on his 1927 visit to New Zealand. Dr. Allan, who is director of the botany section of the Plant Research Bureau in Wellington, lias made important researches into the subject of the native grasslands, and also into such economic questions as the ragwort problem. He has learned Swedish to keep in touch with Scandinavian botany, and he hopes to attend the seventh International Botanical Congress in Stockholm in 1940.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22948, 28 January 1938, Page 11
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