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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 1 (April 1, 1937)

The Study of Our Flora

The Study of Our Flora.

Henceforth his life was spent in making an intensive survey of the plants of New Zealand and their environment, and in exploring every forest zone, from the kauri groves in the far North to the rich rain forests of the South and the West Coast, and Stewart Island. The alpine and subalpine vegetation particularly interested him, and he was the most vigorous and outspoken critic of the acclimatisation blunders, which have resulted in enormous injury to mountain flora.

In 1904 he was requested by Professor Engler to write the volume on the vegetation of New Zealand for publication in his series of monographs on the vegetation of the earth. This great book was published in 1921; in the meantime Cockayne wrote many reports on botanical surveys for the New Zealand Government.