Prof. A. E. Trueman

Abstract

THE chair of geology in the University of Glasgow, rendered vacant through the resignation of Prof. E. B. Bailey on his appointment as director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, is to be filled by Prof. A. E. Trueman of the University of Bristol. Prof. Trueman was educated at High Pavement School and University College, Nottingham, and he received the degree of D.Sc. in geology from the University of London in 1918. He was appointed assistant lecturer in geology at Cardiff in 1917, and head of the Department of Geology in University College, Swansea, in 1920. In 1933 he succeeded Prof. S. H. Reynolds as Chaning Wills professor of geology in the University of Bristol. Prof. Trueman is best known by his researches in problems of Coal Measures Geology. In particular, he has taken an important part in the zoning of the Coal Measures of South Wales by means of non-marine lamelli-branchs, and in their correlation with other areas. He has also co-operated in research work carried out on dust from coal mines, in connexion with its bearing on the problem of silicosis among miners. In addition to his purely scientific work, Prof. Trueman has interested himself especially in the Workers Educational Association and other university extension activities. He is also a member of a committee appointed at Blackpool last year by Section C of the British Association to study the position of geology in the present educational system.