66 The N.Z. Journal of Science and Technology. [April 
work may be begun at once “ Fellworth,” a fourteen-roomed house, has 
been secured as a temporary home. It is being fitted up with chemical 
and biological laboratories, a museum, and a library, and will be ready 
for occupation in May. The members of the staff are already at work in 
their various capacities, though only three have as yet taken up their 
residence in Nelson. Dr. Tillyard is visiting England as the representative 
of the New Zealand Government at the Imperial Conference of Economic 
Entomologists. He will also visit the United States, Europe, Canada, and 
Honolulu to make inquiries in the interest of the work of the Institute. 
When the staff has settled down in its new quarters it is proposed to 
establish research scholarships and fellowships of sufficient value to attract 
honours science graduates of the University to carry out investigations 
under the guidance of the staff. Since research is the object of the 
Cawthron foundation, no students will be allowed to work in the Institute 
who have not already obtained a good knowledge of at least one science. 
It is hoped that the number of these scholarships will be extended in the 
future by benefactions. The idea of such a foundation as the Cawthron 
Institute should appeal to those who have dreams and see visions of the 
future development of the Dominion. 
There are also many other directions in which bequests and donations 
to the Institute will be of great value :— 
1. The permanent building will be very expensive to erect. Gifts of 
money may be devoted to defraying the cost of special portions 
of this building, such as the library, museum, chemical laboratory, 
and laboratory of plant pathology. Such portions of the building, 
or separate buildings, would, of course, be named after the donors. 
2. The endowment of new departments— e.g., forestry research, plant¬ 
breeding, pasture-improvement, stock-improvement, waste-product 
utilization, and animal and plant pathology. 
3. The endowment of scholarships and fellowships for special researches. 
4. Endowments for the library and museum. 
Two bequests have already been received by the Institute. Miss Marsden, 
of Nelson, bequeathed a collection of works of art valued at £3,000, and 
Mr. McMurtry his collection of scientific books. Quite recently also a very 
valuable gift of books has been made by Lady Hector. These consist 
chiefly of publications of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh 
and of the Linnean Society of London, and will be invaluable as works 
of reference. 
It is particularly to be noticed that the Cawthron Trustees do not regard 
the bequest as a local affair. Though the home of the Institute will be in 
Nelson, its interests will be nation-wide. They consider that the whole 
Dominion and the Empire should benefit by the researches carried out in 
the Institute and the principles established there. They recognize also 
that there is no line of demarcation between pure and applied science, and 
that the pursuit of the two should go hand in hand if results of great 
economic value are to be obtained. 
The endowment of the Cawthron Institute and the bequest of the late 
Mr. Howard of £100,000 for the foundation of an agricultural college lead 
us to hope that a new era has dawned in the finance of institutions of 
higher learning and of scientific research generally in New Zealand. . 
