Cunningham, Gordon Herriot, 1892-1965 : Autobiography

The autobiography, in two books, finishes in 1938, although an outline for a proposed third book to 1951 is included.

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Cunningham gained extensive practical experience in sheep farming, fruit growing and forestry in New Zealand and Australia before serving with NZEF at Gallipoli in World War I. He joined the Department of Agriculture as an orchard instructor in 1917 and studied at Victoria University College in the 1920s. He represented New Zealand at the First Imperial Mycological Conference in London in 1924 and in 1928 was put in charge of the Mycological Laboratory, Plant Research Station, Palmerston North. He visited North American and British institutions in 1929 and was instrumental in the reorganization of agricultural research when, in 1936, plant research was transferred to the DSIR.

Quantity: 5 folder(s) (270 leaves).

Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations