A GREAT BIOLOGIST

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19504, 4 February 1926, Page 10

A GREAT BIOLOGIST

LATE PROFESSOR DENDY. An eloquent tribute to a well-known biologist, whose death occurred during the past year, was paid by Dr. R. J. Tillyard, of the Cawthron Institute, in the course of his address at the Science Congress in Dunedin last week. “The British Empire,” Dr. Tillyard said, “has lost one of the great biologists of the older school, one on whom the spirit of Darwin and Huxley had in large measure descended. I refer to Professor Arthur Dendy, F.R.S., wellknown and greatly beloved by us in New Zealand, and a man who always strove to find the germ of truth in every theory, without allowing any one such theory to take possession of his mind and pervert his perspective of other men’s work. . . The famous Chair of Zoology at King’s College, London, left vacant by Professor Dendy’s lamented death, is now filled by the grandson of the great Thomas Huxley, and in this I trust we may see an omen of better things to comq for biology in the near future.

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