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THE following awards of the Geological Society of London have recently been announced: the Wollaston Medal to Mr. Henry Woods, formerly University lecturer in palæontology in the University of Cambridge, in recognition of the value of his researches into the mineral structure of the earth, especially his studies of fossil Mollusca and Crustacea from the Cretaceous formations of Great Britain, Africa and New Zealand; the Murchison Medal to Prof. Arthur Holmes, professor of geology in the University of Durham, in recognition of the value of his petrological researches and of his stimulating studies concerning the composition and physical state of the earth's interior; the Lyell Medal to Prof. H. L. Hawkins, professor of geology in the University of Reading, for his eminence in palæontology, particularly in his studies of the Echinoidea, and for his researches in Eocene stratigraphy; the Wollaston Fund to Miss Dorothea M. A. Bate for her investigations of Pleistocene mammalian faunas in Palestine and the Mediterranean; the Murchison Fund to Archibald Gordon Macgregor, for his petrological researches into Scottish rocks and his work on the geology of Monserrat; a moiety of the Lyell Fund to Miss Dorothy Hill, for her researches on Palæozoic corals; another moiety of the Lyell Fund to Mr. L. H. Tonks, for his work on the Carboniferous rocks of Lancashire and Northumberland.
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Awards of the Geological Society. Nature 144, 1044 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441044b0
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