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Foweraker undertook research into and wrote on the subject of the vegetation of the Cass Valley, and produced government reports and articles on forestry. He was not a very prolific author of work for publication, being more focused on his students. He was however noted for his "great skill as a
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The Rain Forest of
Westland, Charles E. Foweraker, in Te Kura Ngahere, vol. 1, 1925, pp. 7-9; The Podocarp Rain Forests of Westland- No. 2. Khaikatea and Totara Forests and Their Relationship to Silting, Charles E. Foweraker, in Te Kura Ngahere, vol. 2, no. 4, 1929, pp.
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The
Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: being a complete table of all the descendants now living of Edward III, King of England: The Clarence Volume, containing the descendants of George, duke of Clarence, Melville de Massue, T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1905, p.
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Notes from the
Canterbury College Mountain Biological Station No. 4- the principal plant associations in the immediate vicinity of the station, Leonard Cockayne, Charles E. Foweraker, in Transactions of the New Zealand Institute vol. 48, 1916, pp.
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to become a fully certified teacher whilst teaching at
Waimate Primary School; from 1910 to 1912 he was first assistant master at the Waimate High School. At the same time he undertook university studies, taking an
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Guideline Principles: Botany and Ecology within the State Forest Service of New Zealand during the 1920s, Anton Sveding, in International Review of Environmental History, vol. 5, issue 1, 2019, pp. 113-
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was Frank
Hutchinson, forming a "good, balanced team"- "the former conscientious, dedicated, scholarly, and kindly; the latter energetic, incisive, forthright, and reportedly an inspirational teacher."
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in biology at Canterbury College, being responsible for a good deal of undergraduate laboratory work, lecturing on botany, and conducting field excursions with students at the newly established
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photographer"; a large number of photographs- mainly taken between 1914 and 1930, including of the area around the Cass Field Station but also of other botanical subjects- were preserved on
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Charles Foweraker: forestry and ideas of sustainability at Canterbury University College (1925-1934), Michael Roche, in ENNZ: Environment and Nature in New Zealand Vol 11, Dec 2018, p. 15
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Annotated summaries of letters to colleagues by the New Zealand botanist Leonard Cockayne– 1, A. D. Thomson, in New Zealand Journal of Botany, vol. 17, 1979, pp. 389-416
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A new species of Coprosma (Rubiaceae) from the South Island, New Zealand, D. A. Norton and P. J. de Lange, in New Zealand Journal of Botany, vol. 41, 2003, pp. 223- 231
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Who's who in New Zealand and the Western Pacific, 4th edition, ed. Dr G. H. Scholefield, A. W. Reed Ltd, 1941, pp. 37, 149
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