CLERIC AND BOTANIST.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12069, 26 July 1917, Page 5

CLERIC AND BOTANIST.

CLERIC AND BOTANIST.

DR HOLLO WAY'S SUCCESS

Among the degrees recently gained at the New Zealand University, as determined at the meeting of the Senate in May last, was the Doctor of Science Degree awarded to the Rev J. E. Holloway for his botanical researches. Dr Holloway was a student arid graduate of the Auckland University College and took his M.Sc. degree in 1.906 for a thesis on the anatomical structure of some of the New Zealand species of Lycopods. About five years ago he enme to Canterbury, having been appointed vicar of East Oxford. He has since continued his researches in botany, working, as a research student in the biological laboratory of Canterbury College whenever opportunity offered. He has published several papers in the recent numbers of the ' Transactions of the New Zealand Institute," and for one k entitled " Studies of New Zealand Species of the Genus Lycopodium," he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science. The examiner, Professor I. Bayley Balfour, of Edinburgh University, in his report spoke very highly of the value of Dr Holloway's work, and his M.Sc. thesis has received very favourable mention from botanical journals both in England and America. Dr Holloway has since beets transferred to Hokitika. but is still continuing his work on various New Zealand plants allied to the Lycopods.