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IT is announced that the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia has awarded the Hayden Memorial Gold Medal for 1932 to Dr. Reginald Aldworth Daly, Sturgis-Hooper professor of geology in Harvard University. This is the outstanding American award for pre-eminence in geological and palseontological research. Prof. Daly's work chiefly involves the study of igneous rocks, their genesis, and the mechanics of their intrusion into the mountains of the earth. Other of his outstanding contributions to geology are his glacial-control theory of coral reefs, his work on the eustatic shift of oceanic level, and his researches on the constitution of the earth. He has presented many of his ideas in popular form in his book, “Our Mobile Earth” (1926). The Hayden award, which is made every three years, was founded in 1888 by Mrs. Emma W. Hayden, of Philadelphia, as a memorial to her husband, Dr. Ferdinand V. Hayden, director of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey in the early days of that organisation.
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The Hayden Memorial Gold Medal. Nature 129, 342–343 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129342f0
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