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to Forest Companies of the Australian Army, and in 1945 
spent six mouths in the Solomon Islands in connection 
with a forest survey. These two trips resulted in very 
extensive collections of plants, the examination of which 
is still incomplete. 
In 194(1, the year after the war. the Australian and 
New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 
held its twenty-fifth meeting in Adelaide. On that 
occasion the Mueller Memorial Medal was awarded to 
Air. White for his contributions to botanical science, 
in 1948 the honorary degree of Master of Science was 
conferred on him by the University of Queensland. 
Mr. White planned to re-visit the Kew Herbarium 
early in 1951 to extend the work started in 1939. and 
had actually made the necessary arrangements at the 
time of his death. 
The trend of most of C. T. White’s work was on 
taxonomic lines. Occasionally his papers prepared in 
collaboration departed from his usual theme, as in those 
written with F. B. Smith on cyanophoric plants, hut in 
such cases his contribution was on the taxonomic side. 
The same was true of most of his lectures, impromptu 
remarks at discussions or exhibits at scientific meetings. 
The physiology, ecology, histology and pathology of 
plants were mainly 0 f interest to him insofar as' they 
impinged on floristics. To those younger botanists whose 
interest in taxonomy was often confined only to the 
names of the plants with which they were working, his 
solid knowledge was of untold value. His help was 
always freely given and a constant stream of students 
of all branches of botany turned regularly to him for 
advice and collaboration. Often, though, their visits 
were mainly for the pleasure of a yarn with O.T. 
Mr. White was a Past President of the Royal 
Society of Queensland, the Queensland Naturalists’ 
Club, the Horticultural Society of Queensland, the 
Queensland Orchid Society and the Royal Geographical 
Societv of Australasia (Queensland Branch). For over 
twenty years he lectured on Forest Botany in the 
University of Queensland and for some years had been 
giving lectures on botany to Adult Education Classes in 
Brisbane. He lectured regularly to various clubs and 
