OTAGO MAN HONOURED
MATHEMATICAL POST UNIVERSITY OF NATAL Dr A. A. Rayner, Ph.D. (Edinburgh), a former dux of the Otago Boys’ High School and St Clair School, has been appointed professor of biometry at the Natal Agricultural Research Institute, Pietermaritzburg, which is attached to the University of Natal. Dr Rayner will leave New Zealand by the Dominion Monarch early in July. His new post is the only one of its
kind in South Africa, and possibly in the British Empire. His duties will consist of directing the statistical side of the institute, and lecturing at the university, where a degree course in biometry is planned. Biometry is the application of mathematical statistics to agriculture, biology, genetics, and similar scientific subjects but particularly to the complicated techniques developed for experimental work in agriculture. Dr Rayner. graduated from the Otago University with honours in mathematics. After four years in the armed forces he joined the Department of Agriculture, and went to Edinburgh University on a rehabilitation scholarship. He is at present with the department at Wellington.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27091, 27 May 1949, Page 6
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