Geology At Congress

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31384, 1 June 1967, Page 11

Geology At Congress

Professor D. A. Brown, head of the department of geology In the school of general studies at the Australian National University, Canberra, has accepted the presidency of the geology section of congress of tie Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science In ■Christchurch next January. Professor Brown, who studied at Auckland University College and Imperial College, London, was formerly a geologist with the New Zealand Geological Survey. Before going to Canberra to establish the geology department there, he was on the lecturing staff in the geology department at Otago University. Professor F. W. Shotton. head of the departments of geology and geophysics at the University of Birmingham, and president of the Geological Society of London, will give a special lecture on a general topic at the congress. Professor Shotton will visit New Zealand as a Commonwealth prestige scholar at the invitation of the University Grants Committee. He will spend the month after the congress visiting various New Zealand centres.

Clean Sweep.—Miss V. Caslavska, the 25-year-old Czechoslovaklan world and Olympic women's champion, swept the board at the European gymnastics championships. She won the maximum of five gold medals.