PRESIDENT OF NEXT SCIENCE CONGRESS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 103, 25 January 1939, Page 13

PRESIDENT OF NEXT SCIENCE CONGRESS

Dr. Patrick Marshall

EMINENT NEW ZEALAND

GEOLOGIST

The honour conferred on the

eminent New Zealand geologist, Dr. Patrick Marshall, Lower Hutt, at the recent congress of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science, in Canberra, may be regarded as a reward for years of work in the cause of science. Unanimously elected president of the next congress, to be held in Adelaide, Dr. Marshall Inis been a member of the association since IS91 —it was formed in 1888 —and bits

irobably attended more congresses han any other New Zealander He as attended eight times.

Dr. Marshall came to New Zealand with his parents as a small boy. His father, who was an Anglican clergyman, was a brilliant scholar and a double Cambridge blue (cricket mil rackets). When Dr. Marshall was 10 years old. however, his father died. Ills mother brought tip the family of five boys with such wise devotion that every one of them made his mark.

After graduating in science in the University of Otago, Dunedin, after three years of earlier university work in Canterbury University College, Christchurch. Dr. Marshall became a lecturer at Lincoln Agricultural College. Canterbury. Later lie became a master at Auckland Grammar School, from where he went to a position as professor of geology at Otago Universitv, a. post lie held for .15 years. Dr. Marshall resigned the chair of geology to resume his favourite work by accepting the headmastership of the Wanganui Collegiate School. He heid this position till his retirement some years ago.

Since his retirement he has been consultant, geologist for the Main Highways and Public Works Departments. He is also the author of two standard works widely used as textbooks. “The Geology of New Zealand," and "The Geography of New Zealand.”