SCIENCE RESEARCH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17156, 5 October 1926, Page 7

SCIENCE RESEARCH

PROFESSOR MARSDEN'S APPOINTMENT. Speaking :\! au Otago University Club dinner, Sir James Allen expressed the hope that the initial legislation .passed this year in regard to the NewZealand University ami the constituent, colleges would open the door to a better co-ordination between the university colleges and the New Zealand University. Not. very long before he left England he had discussed the question of research with Sir Frank Heath, who had said that he knew of no better man to be head of the new research organisation being established in New Zealand than Professor Marsden, but that he hoped it would be found possible for the latter to go Home in order to obtain information of the research work that was being carried out before the organisation was launched. In the Dominion the speaker had mentioned the suggestion to the Prime Minister, and he thought it was a matter for great regret that Professor Marsden was unable to go to see what was lie-1 ing done in the research institutions of Hiitain. Sir James Allen said thai he had heard the opinion expressed in England hy I lie Rothamsted Institute that there was no greater English-speaking entomologist than Dr. Tilvard, of the fjiwrhrr.n Institute at Nelson. \«ho was doing extraordinarily well at Home in research with regard to the destruction of blackberry.' He expressed the opinion thai a perfect university was impossible withoul good research work. Sir James Allen fe'l sure Professor Marsden would do his best to on-eourn-'o research, and he stressed the need for co-ordination in the work of research throughout the Km pi re. This was a very big problem, but ho thought the Imperial Institute might be used as a sort of centre, where cni'bl be recorded the line of research pr-hw "ii in all parts of the Empire, and even in other parts of the world.