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THE following awards of the Geological Society of London have recently been announced: Wollaston Medal to Prof. R. A. Daly, Sturgis Hooper professor of geology in the Museum of Comparative Geology at Harvard University, in recognition of his fundamental researches in many branches of geology, especially those concerned with the origin of igneous rocks, the constitution of the interior of the earth, and the controls of coral-reef formation; Murchison Medal to Prof. H. H. Swinnerton, professor of geology in University College, Nottingham, for his stimulating contributions to the philosophy of palæontology; Lyell Medal to Mr. W. S. Bisat, for his studies in the stratigraphical palæontology of Carboniferous rocks ; Wollaston Fund to Dr. E. S. Hills, for his contributions to Australian palæontology and geology ; Murchison Fund to Dr. K. C. Dunham, for his investigations into the mineral deposits of the North of England ; a moiety of the Lyell Fund to Dr. S. R. Nockolds, for his mineralogical and petrological work and his contributions to the study of assimilation processes ; a second moiety of the Lyell Fund to Dr. J. Shirley, for his researches in palæozoic palæontology and stratigraphy.
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Awards of the Geological Society of London. Nature 149, 135 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149135a0
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