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DURING recent years the study of geography has won recognition in most of the colleges of the University of New Zealand, and in 1944 a New Zealand Geographical Society was founded in Wellington with branches in the other main cities of the Dominion. This Society has now issued the first number of its journal under the title of the New Zealand Geographer, from its publishing office at Canterbury University College, where the idea of the Society was born. The journal, which is to appear twice a year, is to be concerned primarily, but not exclusively, with aspects of New Zealand, and is for home and overseas readers. The first number is devoted entirely to New Zealand topics and is written wholly by New Zealand contributors. Among several important articles is one by Mr. P. D. Sears on the regional variety of pasture growth in New Zealand. Since the country is primarily agricultural with chief interests in grazing, this study of the varying conditions of pasture growth is of much value. Another useful article is by Prof. C. A. Cotton on the geo-morphic provinces in New Zealand. The New Zealand Geographer is well produced and promises to be a useful addition to geographical serials.
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Geography in New Zealand. Nature 156, 44 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156044b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156044b0