Abstract

The Council records with regret the deaths of Mr Morley H. Neale, C.B.E., Dr M. N.Hill, F.R.S., Prof. W. F. Whittard, F.R.S., and Prof. Hans Pettersson, For.Mem.R.S. Mr Morley Neale had been a member of Council on a number of occasions, a Vice-President of the Association since 1951, and by a gift made in 1958, he founded the Morley Neale Fund for 'the benefit or pleasure of the Plymouth Laboratory staff and ship's crews'. Dr Maurice Hill had for many years been associated with the life and work of the Laboratory and its ships. He first served on the Council in 1956 and was a member at the time of his death. Prof. Whittard had served on Council for two periods and in recent years had made a number of cruises in 'Sarsia' in the course of his investigations of the geology of the sea floor in the western English Channel. Prof. Hans Pettersson was elected an Honorary Member of the Association in 1949 and was at the time of his death second in seniority of the nine Honorary Members.

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