CHATHAM ISLANDS.
SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. The New Zealand scientists to take part in the expedition for scientific exploration on the Chatham Islands, leaving Lyttelton on New Year’s Day are:—Mr. Maxwell Young F.C.S., Portobello marine fish hatcheries, biology: Mr. H. D. Skinner, 8.A., Dunedin, anthropology; Mr. R. S. Allan. B.Sc., Dunedin, geology; Mr. W. G. Howes, F.E.S.. Dunedin, entomology; Mr. J. Warwick, M.A., Government palaeontologist, fossil life; Mr. E. F. Northcroft, B.Sc., Dunedin, botany; Mr. W. Martin. B.Sc., Dunedin, botany; Mr. R. M. Laing. B.Sc,, Christchurch, marine botany. Mr. Gilbert Archey, M.A., assistant curator of the Canterbury museum, whose field study will be birds and general biology, and Mr. S. Laing, also of the Canterbury museum, whose science is entomology, are alreadv at the island. Professor R. Speight, M.A., M.Sc., curator of the Canterbury museum, will investigate the geology of the islands at a later date.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1923, Page 5
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150CHATHAM ISLANDS. Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1923, Page 5
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