Retirement of Prof. A. Morley Davies

AFTER more than thirty years' service as demonstrator, lecturer and assistant professor, Dr. Arthur Morley Davies will shortly retire from the Department of Geology of the Imperial College of Science and Technology and readership in the University of London. Opportunity was taken by his colleagues in the Department to make him a presentation on Tuesday, June 25. Prof. Boswell recalled that Prof. Davies joined the College fifty-one years ago, and became a member of a stimulating group of students which included such well-known figures as H. G. Wells, R. A. Gregory, A. T. Simmons, A. E. H. Tutton and A. V. Jennings. Tribute was paid to Prof. Davies for his long and devoted services to geology, to the College and to learned societies. The Royal Geographical Society conferred honorary fellowship on him, and the Geological Association honorary membership, as a mark of appreciation of his help and counsel during many years; and the Geological Society awarded him its Murchison Fund and, later, its Lyell Medal in recognition of his original work. Prof. Davies is the author of textbooks of geography, local geology, palaeontology and, recently, of two volumes on the Tertiary faunas, which will long remain a standard work of reference.