Helen was a Librarian. She also wrote on some early New Zealand bird literature, the meanings of the scientific names of the 333 birds listed in the Checklist of New Zealand Birds of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand in 1953. Her husband Walter was a Customs officer, naturalist, museum director, writer and a member of many national and international societies and was honoured by election as an honorary member to numbers of these, including the Swedish Phytogeographical Society, the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union, the British Ornithologists' Union, and the Fiji Society. He was president of the Wellington Philosophical Society in 1929–30, the first president of the New Zealand Association of Scientific Workers (later the New Zealand Association of Scientists), chairman of the botany section of the seventh Pacific Science Congress in Auckland in 1949, and of the eighth congress in Manila in 1953, and president of the Royal Society of New Zealand's eighth Science Congress in 1954. She accompanied him on his trip to Norfolk Island.
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Helen was a Librarian. She also wrote on some early New Zealand bird literature, the meanings of the scientific names of the 333 birds listed in the Checklist of New Zealand Birds of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand in 1953. Her husband Walter was a Customs officer, naturalist, museum director, writer and a member of many national and international societies and was honoured by election as an honorary member to numbers of these, including the Swedish Phytogeographical Society, the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union, the British Ornithologists' Union, and the Fiji Society. He was president of the Wellington Philosophical Society in 1929–30, the first president of the New Zealand Association of Scientific Workers (later the New Zealand Association of Scientists), chairman of the botany section of the seventh Pacific Science Congress in Auckland in 1949, and of the eighth congress in Manila in 1953, and president of the Royal Society of New Zealand's eighth Science Congress in 1954. She accompanied him on his trip to Norfolk Island.
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* Also read husband's bio for more
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