Displays on the Environment

Photographic and specimen displays on

• Feral Goats on Arapawa Island
• How scientists investigate forest insects
• Frogs in New Zealand
• Aspects of Mussel Farming
• Effect of treated sewage on the Wainuiomata River
• Scabies and Sarcoptic Mange
• Poplar Rust Control
• University contributions to Fishery Development
• The Kerosene Fungus

Physiological Research

Displays on research activities showing experiments in progress and utilising oscillopscopes and other special apparatus. Illustrated static displays.

Exhibition

Exhibition of Botanical photographs, specimens and equipment in display cabinets.

H.D. Gordon Herbarium

Preserved plant exhibits, research on native Spaniard grasses. New Caledonian ratas and a new species of Clematis.

Stage one Laboratory

Display (including microscope demonstrations) of some topics studied in first year Botany lab, classes. Scanning electron microscope photos of plants. Equipment used in preparing microscope slides of plant sections.

Plant Physiology Laboratory

Demonstration of plant physiology experiments and plant physiology research by staff and graduate students.

Advanced Laboratory A

Closed circuit TV demonstration of living plant cells. Research on dividing cells. The use of the computer in botanical research. Antarctic research. Botanical Publications. Plant regeneration in the Marlborough Sounds region. Temperate beech forests of the Southern hemisphere.

Advanced Laboratory B

Research on pollution in Wellington Harbour. Fungi paintings, research on the control of cereal diseases, a new species of fungus, fungi and allergies, dung fungi.

Glasshouse

Live plant display.