Abstract

ABSTRACTR. W. (Dick) Willett was director of the New Zealand Geological Survey (NZGS) from 1956 to 1967, when he initiated an ambitious project to publish a new national geological map at a scale of 1:250,000 (the Four Mile project). It was completed within a decade, and subsequently used as a model by overseas geological surveys. In 1967 he was appointed assistant director-general of DSIR and subsequently served as the president of the Royal Society of New Zealand from 1970 to 1974.

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