283:. A Nuffield Fellowship enabled him to travel to Britain in 1951, where he attended the conference of the World Federation of Scientific Workers. He was unsuccessful in an effort to moderate the political leanings of this body. As a consequence, the New Zealand group disaffiliated and formed the politically neutral body New Zealand Association of Scientists.
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from 1955 to 1957. In 1966, he became the head of the zoological department and gave it a more modern outlook. He also became a noted conservationist and argued strongly, and with the help of professional bodies, against power projects that flooded or permanently changed sites of significant beauty
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in London, for which he was elected an associate in 1937. In 1938, he became the president of the
Wellington Camera Club and in the same year, he was elected secretary for the Wellington Philosophical Society, which was the city's branch of the
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In early 1949, Salmon went from the
Dominion Museum to Victoria University College; he would lecture in zoology for nearly three decades. During that time, he became a world authority on collembola. He was president of the
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and he was involved in local body politics through memberships to the
Waikanae Community Council and Horowhenua County Council. With health declining, Salmon gave up his public roles in 1983 and they moved to
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where they had owned a holiday home for a long time. He worked on more books and revised earlier editions, with the increasing help from his wife. He died in
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in 1960 and it became an important text that help shape the country's conservation movement, then in its infancy. In response, the government set up the
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made support for the group's aims an election issue and it helped them win the
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New Zealand zoologist, botanist and entomologist (1910–1999)
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