Geological Society : Awards for 1949

Abstract

THE Council of the Geological Society has announced' the following awards : Wollaston Medal to Dr Norman L. Bowen, of the Geophysical Lab-oratory, Washington, in recognition of his eminent researches in quantitative experimental petrology and for his brilliant application of these and related studies in the elucidation of fundamental problems of petro-genesis. Murchison Medal to Mr. Tom Eastwood, lately assistant director of H.M. Geological Survey, for his long and distinguished work on the Geological Survey, especially in the realm of economic geology. Lyell Medal to Prof. S. J. Shand, for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of geology, embodied especially in his book on "Eruptive Rocks"and numerous published papers on the petrology of the felspathoidal rocks of South Africa, Canada and Scotland. Wollaston Donation Fund to Mr. G. A. Kellaway, in recognition of his work on the stratigraphy and structure of the Northamptonshire ironstone district and the Bristol-Somerset Coalfield. Murchison Geological Fund to Dr. H. Dighton Thomas for his researches in fossil corals, sponges and other invertebrates. A moiety of the Lyell Geological Fund to Dr. J. E. Hemingway for his studies of the stratigraphy, structure and sedimentary petrography of the Jurassic rocks of North-East Yorkshire ; another moiety of the Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. J. Selwyn Turner for his contributions to Carboniferous stratigraphy and structural geology.