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DR. R. G. S. HUDSON has been appointed to succeed Prof. A. Gilligan as professor of geology in the University of Leeds. Dr. Hudson studied geology at University College, London, under Prof. E. J. Garwood. He later joined the staff of the Geological Department at University College and commenced research on the fauna of the Yoredale Series. Ho continued his interest in Carboniferous stratigraphy after his appointment in 1922 to the geological staff of the University of Leeds. The greater part of his work has dealt with the Dinantian and Namurian of Yorkshire especially with the relation between the various facies and faunal assemblages. He early demonstrated the unconformable junction between the Lower and Upper Carboniferous of Yorkshire; later, with Dr. G. H. Mitchell he described the geology of the Skipton anticline, and with the aid of various grants put down a boring in that area to the base of the Carboniferous. He has devoted attention to the Variscan orogeny and its control of sedimentation. His interest in the fauna of the Carboniferous has resulted in this description of new genera and species of corals such as Rylstonia, Rhopalolasma, and various species of Orionastroea. In 1931, Dr. Hudson was awarded the Wollaston Fund of the Geological Society and has served on the Council of that society. He has also been secretary of various committees of Section C, British Association, and is now joint secretary of that section. Dr. Hudson has taken considerable part in the organization of the geological societies in Yorkshire, and for some years has been editor of the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society and the Transactions of the Leeds Geological Society.
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Dr. R. G. S. Hudson. Nature 144, 16 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144016a0
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