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THE appointment of Dr. W. F. P. McLintock to succeed Sir Edward Bailey as director of H.M. Geological Survey and Museum is especially fitting at this stage in the long history of that institution. Dr. McLintock's keen analytical mind, his long administrative experience and his gifts for effective planning and exposition, are now brought most opportunely to the re-organization of the Survey's peace-time activities. After graduating at the University of Edinburgh, Dr. McLintock joined the Geological Survey in 1907 as assistant curator in the Museum of Practical Geology. In 1911 he left the Survey to take charge of the Geological Department of the Royal Scottish Museum, where he was responsible for the exhibits of the Geological Survey in Scotland. In 1921 he rejoined the Survey as curator and became deputy director in 1937.
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Dr. W. F. P. McLintock: Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. Nature 156, 329 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156329a0
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