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THE Lord President of the Council has appointed Prof. E. B. Bailey, professor of geology in the University of Glasgow, to be director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Practical Geology, a post rendered vacant by the untimely death last year of Dr. Bernard Smith. Prof. Bailey previously served on the staff of the Survey for some twenty-seven years. After a distinguished career at Cambridge, where he gained the Harkness scholarship in geology, in 1902 he was appointed geologist to the Geological Survey of Scotland, with headquarters in Edinburgh, where he remained until 1929. During the years he served in Scotland, Prof. Bailey made a special study of the tectonics of the Dalvadian schists, a subject in which he became an acknowledged leader. He also took an important part in the survey of the tertiary igneous rocks in Mull, and edited the Survey memoir on this area. Other duties carried out during his years on the Survey included much work on the Carboniferous rocks in the Midland Valley of Scotland. His experience was further widened by visits abroad from time to time. Prof. Bailey's Survey career was interrupted by the Great War, during which he saw much service in France with the Royal Artillery, receiving the Military Cross, the Legion d'Honneur and the Croix de Guerre as rewards for distinguished services. His enthusiasm for geology was such that he even found time to publish papers on this subject during the time he was engaged on military service.
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Prof. E. B. Bailey, F.R.S.. Nature 139, 102 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139102b0
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