Institution of Mining and Metallurgy: New President

Abstract

MR. J. ALLEN HOWE has been elected president of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy for the year 1942-43. Mr. Allen Howe was educated privately and at the Royal College of Science, and holds the London B.Sc. degree. For a year he was demonstrator in geology at the Royal College of Science and Royal School of Mines, and in 1901 was appointed to H.M. Geological Survey, where he served for thirty years on the field staff and as curator of the Museum of Practical Geology, and from 1922 onwards as assistant director. During his service he took an active part in stimulating the economic side of the Survey's work, and he is the author of several works mainly dealing with building stone, broken stone, and refractory materials. On these and other subjects he has made numerous contributions, including many articles on topographical geology and stratigraphy in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (thirteenth edition). He was a member of the International Conferences on Testing Materials, and was for a number of years adviser on stone to H.M. Office of Works and since 1918 to the Imperial War Graves Commission. He was a member of the Committee on Coal Conservation and the Imperial Economic Committee. Since 1931 Mr. Allen Howe has practised as a consultant in economic geology.