MEMORIAL MEDAL AWARDED

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21989, 13 January 1937, Page 10

MEMORIAL MEDAL AWARDED

APPOINTMENT OF VARIOUS OFFICERS 1951 CONGRESS TO BE HELD IN CHRISTCHURCH U'ftE3S ASSOCIATION TKLEGIiAII.) AUCKLAND, January 12. The awarding of a memorial medal and the appointment of various officers formed the main part of the business done by the council of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science when it met this morning. The meeting was a preliminary to the congress of delegates. Sir Douglas Mawson presided. The Governors-General of Australia and New Zealand accepted invitations to act as patrons of the association. Professor E. W. Skeats, professor of geology at the University of Melwas awarded the Mueller Memorial Medal for his work on dolomitisation, coral reef geology, and the petrology of igneous rocks in Australia. Mr Gilbert Archey was elected local secretary for New Zealand in succession to Professor C. Coleridge Farr, whose resignation had been received. It was decided to send a letter of appreciation to Professor Farr for his work for the association. Messages of congratulation on their birthdays were sent to Sir David Masson, a past president of the association, who has reached his 79th birthday, and Professor Walter Howchin, of Adelaide, who celebrated his ninetysecond birthday yesterday. To succeed Sir David Rivett as president at its next biennial congress, Professor Ernest Scott, of Melbourne University, was elected president-elect of the association. It was decided to hold the next congress at Canberra in January, 1939. The decision to appoint Professor Scott was partly influenced by the next congress (which will be the first to be held at the Commonwealth capital) marking the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the association, which was established in August, 1888. •x I , t ., was stat ed that not until 1951 was it likely that another congress of the association would be held in New Zealand, since, in the meantime, . they would have to be held in various Australian state capitals. When New Zealand s turn came around again, the meeting would be held at Christchurch.