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He was born in Sheffield, England where he attended Wesley College.
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The Vegetation of New Zealand (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture)
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When botanist Leonard Cockayne (1855-1934) first received an invitation from the German publisher Engelmann to write an account of the botany of New Zealand, much of it was still unknown. He spent the period from 1904 to 1913 immersed in fieldwork, and his first edition was not published until 1921. In this 1928 second edition Cockayne extensively updates the text, adding the results of further research from the intervening years. This work gives detailed descriptions of New Zealand's plant life, but Cockayne also considers the history of botanical study of the islands, from Captain Cook's voyages in the eighteenth century onwards, and includes the arrival of colonial plant collectors and an overview of important publications by New Zealand botanists. The descriptions of vegetation cover the sea coast, the lowlands, mountains, and outlying islands, and there are extensive photographs, offering a comprehensive guide to New Zealand's botany.
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New Zealand Board of Science and Art. Manual No. 1. New Zealand Plants and Their Story
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The Distribution Of The Vegetation And Flora Of New Zealand FACSIMILE
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New Zealand Plants and Their Story (Classic Reprint) by Leonard Cockayne (2015-09-27)
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The Vegetation of New Zealand - Primary Source Edition
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The Distribution of the Vegetation and Flora of New Zealand
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Leonard Cockayne
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Education
In June 1901, he attended the first conference of horticulturists in New Zealand at Dunedin where he presented a paper on the plants of the Chatham Islands and advocated the establishment of experimental plant research stations in New Zealand.
Career
He travelled to Australia in 1877 and shortly moved on to New Zealand where he became established as a botanist. This helped to establish Cockayne"s reputation. The main aim of the expedition was to extend the magnetic survey of New Zealand by investigating Auckland and Campbell Islands but botanical, biological and zoological surveys were also conducted.
The voyage also resulted in rescue of the castaways of the shipwreck the Dundonald in the Auckland Islands.
Cockayne"s major contributions to botany were in plant ecology and in his theories of hybridisation. In 1899 he published the first New Zealand account of successional changes in vegetation.
Between 1897 and 1930 he published 49 papers in the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. In 1914 he was awarded the Hutton Memorial Meda
Cockayne corresponded frequently with famous botanists all over the world.
This helped facilitate the publication of New Zealand papers in overseas journals. He was also instrumental in bringing visitors to New Zealand. 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 1926-1927 collecting from the Far North to the subantarctic islands, paying special attention to lichens.
The director of Kew Gardens, Sir Arthur Hill, came in 1928. Cockayne also assisted and encouraged fellow botanists in their work.
He was thanked by coauthors 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”. The Cockayne Reserve in Christchurch, the Cockayne Nature Walk near Otira on the West Coast, and the Cockayne Lookout in Otari-Wilton"s Bush (Wellington) dedicated solely to New Zealand native plants, are all named after him.
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Works
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The Vegetation of New Zealand (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture)
(When botanist Leonard Cockayne (1855-1934) first received...)
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The Distribution of the Vegetation and Flora of New Zealand
(Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We h...)
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New Zealand Board of Science and Art. Manual No. 1. New Zealand Plants and Their Story
(Leopold is delighted to publish this classic book as part...)
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The Vegetation of New Zealand - Primary Source Edition
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
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The Distribution Of The Vegetation And Flora Of New Zealand FACSIMILE
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- On the occurrence of subalpine vegetation at a low level in the Fiord botanical district (New Zealand): And other matters pertaining thereto
- New Zealand plants and their story,
- New Zealand plants and their story
- The Trees of New Zealand
- New Zealand Plants and Their Story (Classic Reprint) by Leonard Cockayne (2015-09-27)
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The Vegetation of New Zealand (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture)
Membership
Royal Society]
Cockayne was a member of the 1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition.
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Died
July 8, 1934 (aged 79)
Awards
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Fellow of the Royal Society Hutton Memorial Medal; Hector Memorial Medal
The Hector Medal (formerly known as the Hector Memorial Medal) is a science award given by the Royal Society of New Zealand in memory of Sir James Hector to researchers working in New Zealand.The Hector Medal (formerly known as the Hector Memorial Medal) is a science award given by the Royal Society of New Zealand in memory of Sir James Hector to researchers working in New Zealand.