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ministrative duties. Nevertheless, great things have come 

 from these overworked men. 



The work has been mostly along morphological and 

 systematic lines. 



Their best-known biologists, in addition to those just 

 mentioned are : Leonard Cockayne, whose work has shown 

 that many New Zealand plants are not species but hy- 

 brids. This type of work was inspired by the Dutch 

 botanist Lotsy's visit to New Zealand a few years back. 



Then there is Chilton's work on Crustacea, Benham's 

 on Annelida, Tillyard and Nelson on insects in general, 

 Philpot on Lepidoptera, and finally W. E. Agar on 

 Cytology. 



