He rerenga kōrero. 1988-03-16.

Professor Paul Cox of Utah University is an ethonobotanist whose studies have taken him to the Amazon jungles as well as to Polynesia, particularly Western Samoa. As a missionary to that country in the early 1970s, he mastered the Samoan language and received a title from a village on the island of Savaii. Part of his absorption with the Samoan culture, was his study of traditional Samoan healing.

It was this aspect which Professor Cox developed and explored during the DSIR's Ethnobotany hui held on the Rehua marae in Christchurch. Included in his talk, is his definition of ethnobotany.

Other speakers include John Hippolite, Te Wahawaha Stirling, Professor Bruce Biggs, Hohua Tutengaehe, Dr. Murray Parsons and Te Paeru from the Cook Islands.