BOTANICAL STUDY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23500, 14 May 1938, Page 9

BOTANICAL STUDY

ENGLISH EXPERTS VISIT (From Our Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON, Apl. 20. To conduct research into certain leaf changes which are most noticeable in New Zealand than anywhere else in the world, Mr A. C. S. Wright, lec-turer-demonstrator in botany at Leeds University, will arrive in the Dominion at the end of June. Mr Wright, who recently made some surprising discoveries in the course of a survey of the Portuguese cork oak forests for a private firm, has made a special study of the growth of trees and food transport within the tree. He is investigating differences in size and shape of foliage between the juvenile and later periods of trees and shrubs. These changes are smaller in other countries than in New Zealand, which has a large number of trees showing very great alteration. He intends to tour both islands collecting and preserving material for microscopic examination and. if time permits, to make experiments of a physiological and horticultural nature. He will first visit Australia and will spend at least several months, and possibly over a year, in New Zealand. Mr Wright’s father, now director of Scientific Research at the Admiralty, and two of his uncles, visited New Zealand with Scott's Antarctic Expedition of 1910-13.