Naso-genetal relationship in sheep or Dr Vither and that after dinner speech....

摘要

No story about Jim is complete without some mention of his sense of humour and the practical jokes he played. In 1981 John Smith, in his capacity as Secretary of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production, received an abstract for the annual conference to be held in Dunedin from some nonexistent people in MAF media services, namely Toserjen and Vither (1982), on naso-genital relationships in sheep. It took John a number of weeks to work out that the names were anagrams for two of his co-workers, A.J. Peterson and H.R. Tervit. The Management Committee then accepted the abstract and challenged the authors to prepare a full 30 minute presentation at the conference dinner at the Glenfalloch Restaurant on the Otago Peninsula. The resulting presentation on how they managed to record those ram nasal temperatures is part of New Zealand Society of Animal Production history.