VISITING BOTANIST

Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1933, Page 10

VISITING BOTANIST

WORK IN DOMINION. VETERAN AMERICAN SCIENTIST. Keen to make his first investigation of New Zealand’s native flora, Professor William Trelease, a veteran American botanist, arrived at Auckland by the Monterey on Monday. He is. professor emeritus of botany at the University of Illinois. Accompanied by Mrs. Trelease, he hopes to spend several months in the Dominion. “I am exceptionally keen to se.e the mountain plants in the. Southern Alps before it is too late,” Professor Trelease said, “and I am also looking forward to inspecting the forest-fringed glaciers. I hope to go as far south as Stewart Island before returning north to visit the Tongariro National Park and other spots of botanical’ interest. I shall most certainly visit the Waipoua Kauri Forest before my departure.” Dr. Trelease is known among scientists principally for his studies of such exclusively American group of plants as the century plants and yuccas, although he is at present occupied with. research among the true peppers, or piperaceae, of the tropics. His name is commemorated in the scientific names of many plants and a few weeks ago he was informed that a movement was on foot to attach his name to a peak in the Rocky Mountains of Colorada, about 12,500 ft high and not far distant from the lofty peaks bearing the names of his great botanical predecessors.