Abstract
MR. ROWATT has been succeeded in the directorship by Dr. Douglas A. Allan, formerly director of the Liverpool Public Museums. Dr. Allan is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, where he specialized in geology, taking part in the late Dr. W. S. Bruce's expeditions to Spitsbergen, and acting as assistant in the University Department of Geology under the late Prof. T. J. Jehu. During 1925–29 he was lecturer in geology in Armstrong College, University of Durham, and in the latter year was appointed director of the Liverpool Museums. Dr. Allan has taken an active part in the promotion of museum interests as chairman of the Museums Association and as a member of the Post-War Reconstruction Committee on Museums and Art Galleries. Last year he was awarded the Neill Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his researches on the geology of the Highland border in Angus and Perthshire.
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