Ray Forster
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Raymond Robert Forster (1922-2000) was a spider expert.[1]
He wrote his first paper on spiders at the age of 17.[1] He studied at Victoria University.[1] He was an entomologist at the National Museum in Wellington from 1940 through 1947, with an interruption for military service.[1]
More than 100 scientific papers and volumes were published bearing his name, including the definitive six-volume Spiders of New Zealand, in co-authorship with international colleagues.[1] He also published Small Land Animals and co-authored NZ Spiders, An Introduction.[1]
He researched and classified many of New Zealand's thousands of native spiders.[1] He set up the Otago Museum's spider collection. [1]
In 1961, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and also received the society's highest honors, the Hutton and Hector medals, for outstanding scientific work in biological research.[1]
In 1984 Dr Forster was recognized for his services to science and museology with a Queen's Service Order, and had earlier received the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal.[1]
A valley in Fiordland, Forster Burn, is named after him.[1]
External links
Raven, Robert J. (2000). "Raymond Robert Forster, QSO DSc NZ Otago FRSNZ FESNZ FMANZ 1922-2000: Are you there?". Royal Society of New Zealand.
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