Leonard Cockayne
[3] He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1912 on the proposal of Sir J. D. Hooker and was awarded the Hector Memorial Medal in that same year.Johannes Paulus Lotsy, the Dutch botanist, lectured on the place of hybrids in evolution.The Swedish couple Einar and Greta Du Rietz stayed six months in the summer of 1926–27 collecting from the Far North to the subantarctic islands, paying special attention to lichens.He was thanked by co-authors Robert Malcolm Laing and Ellen Wright Blackwell in the preface of their classic book of New Zealand biology Plants of New Zealand for "helping us over many slippery places and for much generous assistance freely given”.[5] He encouraged Charles Ethelbert Foweraker, later senior lecturer in botany, and sometime lecturer in charge of the Forestry School, at the University of Canterbury, in his career, the two men having first corresponded in 1911 when Cockayne was writing The Vegetation of New Zealand; the two went together on many expeditions in Marlborough and Canterbury.
SheffieldWesley College, SheffieldAlfred CockayneHector Memorial MedalVeitch Memorial MedalAuthor abbrev. (botany)Wesley CollegeAustraliaDunedinplants of the Chatham Islands1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific ExpeditionAucklandCampbell IslandsDundonaldhybridisationTransactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New ZealandRoyal SocietySir J. D. HookerRoyal Horticultural SocietyJohannes Paulus LotsylichensKew GardensArthur HillEllen Wright BlackwellCharles Ethelbert FowerakerUniversity of Canterbury1929 King's Birthday HonoursCompanion of the Order of St Michael and St GeorgeChristchurchChristchurch Botanic GardensWest CoastŌtari-Wilton's BushWellingtonNew Zealand native plantsDr. E. TeichelmannWikidataLeipzigauthor abbreviationcitingbotanical nameObituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal SocietyDictionary of New Zealand BiographyMinistry for Culture and HeritageNational Library of New ZealandThe London GazetteInternational Plant Names IndexHector MedalThomas EasterfieldElsdon BestPatrick MarshallErnest RutherfordCharles ChiltonThomas CheesemanPhilip RobertsonPercy SmithRobert SpeightColeridge FarrGeorge HudsonDonald PetrieBernard AstonHarry SkinnerCharles CottonDuncan SommervilleGeorge ThomsonJohn HollowayWilliam Percival EvansTe Rangi Hiroa (Peter H. Buck)John MarwickNoel BensonCharles Ernest WeatherburnWilliam BenhamWalter OliverJohn Reader HoskingHerbert WilliamsArthur BartrumDonald MacleodHarold FinlayHarry AllanBob BriggsJohannes C. AndersenJohn HendersonHenry ForderBaden PowellG. H. CunninghamRobert Anthony RobinsonErnest BeagleholeFrancis John TurnerKeith BullenLance RichdaleLucy CranwellBrian ShorlandRoger DuffHarold WellmanAlister McLellanBarry FellTed ChamberlainRalph PiddingtonCharles FlemingDerek LawdenRichard DellJack HollowayCon CambieGilbert ArcheyDoug CoombsBrian WybourneIra CunninghamTed BollardMichael HartshornHerbert PurvesRobert HayesJack DoddRichard MatthewsLeon PhillipsGraham LigginsTrevor HathertonRoy KerrRay ForsterRod BieleskiPeter de la MareRobin CarrellDan WallsPatricia BergquistPeter WardleWarren RoperRoger GreenDick Walcott