Ray Forster
Raymond Robert Forster QSO (19 June 1922 – 1 July 2000) was a New Zealand arachnologist and museum director.Forster was born in Hastings, New Zealand in 1922,[1] and was educated at Victoria University College, gaining BSc, MSc(Hons) and DSc degrees.[2] Forster was an entomologist at the National Museum in Wellington from 1940 to 1947, with an interruption for military service during World War II.Over the course of his career, more than 100 scientific papers and volumes were published bearing his name, including the definitive six-volume Spiders of New Zealand, in co-authorship with international colleagues.[1] The University of Otago honoured Forster with the award of the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, in 1978.