Abstract
MR. THEODORE C. RIGG has been appointed director of the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand, on the retirement of Prof. T. H. Easterfield. Mr. Rigg was an 1851 Exhibition scholar in 1912 and carried out post-graduate research at the School of Agriculture, Cambridge, until 1914, returning after the War to study at Rothamsted. He was appointed agricultural chemist at the Cawthron Institute in 1919, and has since held positions as head of the Agricultural Department and as assistant director. He has been in charge of the Mineral Content of Pastures Investigation of the Nelson Territory since 1928, and has directed the Reconnaissance Soil Survey of the North Island. His work on animal nutrition, and particularly on the cause and prevention of bush sickness, is well known.
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