Prof. H. P. Lewis

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HERBERT PRICE LEWIS, professor of geology in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, died suddenly at his home at Borth, Cardiganshire, on January 22 in his fifty-second year. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Francis Lewis of Llangollen, and was a pupil of Llangollen County School, going thence to University College, Bangor. He served in the War of 1914-18 and was severely wounded. Proceeding to Downing College, Cambridge, he took the course in natural science, studying geology under the late Prof. J. E. Marr. He was for a short time a master at Oundle School, and in 1921 went to the University of Sheffield where, as a lecturer in geology, he was closely associated with Prof. W. G. Fearnsides. In 1922 he was awarded the Daniel Pidgeon Fund by the Geological Society of London, and in 1931 the J. B. Tyrrell Fund. As holder of the latter he spent some months in Canada studying the fossil faunas of the Devonian and Carboniferous rocks. In the same year he was appointed to the professorship at Aberystwyth. He was awarded an Sc. D. of the University of Cambridge in 1940 ; and he served on the council of the Geological Society during 1942-44.