ROYAL SOCIETY FELLOWS

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29824, 17 May 1962, Page 16

ROYAL SOCIETY FELLOWS

Award For Prof. D. F. Lawden

(N.Z. Press Association)

WELLINGTON. May 15,

Professor D. F. Lawden today became a fellow of the Ptoyal Society of New Zea. land. Others are:— Dr. Elizabeth Batham uunedin). Professor D. S. Coombs (Dunedin). Dr. F. J Gabites (Wellington). Dr. W. M. Hamilton (Wellington). Dr. R. E. F. Matthews (Auckland). Dr. F. H. McDowall (Palmerston North). Professor J. A. R. Miles (Otago), Mr A. L. Poole (Wellington), a ' Dr. K. Wodzicki (Wellington).

Other awards made by the annual meeting of the society’s council are:— Hector Award.—Professor R. O. Piddington. professor of anthropology at Auckland University, for an outstanding contribution to the establishment and development of anthropological studies in the University of Auckland and in particular, for research in the fields of general anthropology and Polynesian ethnology. Hutton Award.—Professor H. B. Fell, for researches on echinoderms.

E R. Cooper Memorial Award.—Dr. M. Gadsden. Hamilton Memorial Prize. —Messrs P. N. Webb and B. C. McKelvey, for geological investigations in South Victoria Land. Antarctica.

Honorary Society Membership.—Dr. C. F. Richter, professor of seismology at the California Institute of Technology.

Toa For Kaiapoi.—After an overhaul on the Lyttelton Blip, the 215-ton motor vessel Toa underwent engine trials in the harbour on Sunday.