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At its annual general meeting on 22nd April, 1964, the Geological Soc­iety of London awarded to Professor Dorothy Hill its Lyell Medal. The medal, founded in 1875 in response to a codicil in the will of Charles Lyell, is by his wish to be regarded as a mark of honorary distinction, and as an express10n on the part of the governing body of the Society that the medallist (who may be of any country or either sex) has deserved well of the science.

In handing the medal to Dr H. Dighton Thomas for transmission to Professor Hill, the President, Profes­sor O M. B. Bulman, F R.S , said

'Dorothy Hill arrived in England as a young research student from Queensland m 1930 and quickly won the esteem of Stanley Smith and W D Lang at the British Museum (Natural History) and of her col­leagues at the Sedgwick Museum. She became a Research Fellow at Newn­ham College in 1932 and three years later was awarded an 1851 Senior Studentship. Her work during this period laid the foundations of her position as a world authority on Palaeozoic corals, and I am glad to note that this Society recognized her

KNIGHTHOOD CONFERRED Sir Herbert Watkin, Director­

General of Educat10n since 1952 and Deputy Chancellor of the University of Queensland since 1953 was made a Knight Bachelor in the Queen s Birthday Honours List. Sir Herbert s honour was bestowed for his eminent services to educat10n.

K. R. ORR, B.A. M.Ed. Lecturer m Education, University

College of Townsville Mr Orr began his teachmg career

at a small boys' boarding school in New South Wales in the 1940's. There he realized the need to go back to being a student if he was to teach adequately an awareness which has made him intermittently uncomfortable ever since. After four years at the University of Melbourne reading philosophy and English literature and being trained as a secondary teacher he went teaching

LyeH Medal early promise by the award of the Daniel Pidgeon Fund in 1934. In 1937 she returned to Queensland with a C.S.I Research Fellowship the tenure of which was interrupted during the war by service as Opera­tions Staff Officer in the W R.A.N .S. Since then she has risen from Lec­turer in Geology at Brisbane to become Research Professor and the first woman member of the Australian Academy

While m England, her principal publications included two works of outstanding value, a critical review of rugose coral terminology and a monograph on the Carboniferous Ru­gose Corals of Scotland for the Palaeontographical Society Her re­turn to Australia opened a wide field for research and the resultant stream of publications is synonymous with almost all that is known about Australian Palaeozoic corals. Her faunal studies have brought a wel­come measure of precision and order into the classification of the Upper Palaeozoic of that continent, and its correlat10n with European and other sequences.

Her morphological work on the Tabulata has done much to elucidate the affinities and systematic position

again in a Melbourne boys' school. The completion of the Bachelor of Education degree involved him in research for the first time, and gave him a taste for getting behind the outward appearances.

There followed two years of teach­ing in England and one in India in a wide variety of schools, from second­ary grammar to an Approved School for delmquents. Smee returning to Australia he has taught in Victoria and Queensland, and has read for a Master of Education degree on the Boy Scout movement He has also written a number of articles for publication in the Journal of Christ­ian Education and Melbourne Studies in Education.

He is lecturing at Townsville in principles of education and compara­tive education, and doing research mto the work of independent schools and the Gandhian scheme of basic education.

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of these problematical fossils, and m a Presidential Address to the Royal Society of Queensland she has spec­ulated on the phyletic relationships of Ordovician corals and summarised what is known of their distribution and the sequence of faunas. Her pro­lific output continues, but the mor­phological and systematic studies up to 1958 were compactly incorporated in the massive volume on Coelente­rates in the Treatise of Invertebrate Paleontology, a major part of which owes to the jomt authorship of D Hill and J W Wells. Lately she has turned to a study of Archaeo­cyathids, and has in the press an important comprehensive survey of this remarkable group.

A gifted and enthusiastic teacher she has exercised considerable in­fluence on the development of palaeontology and stratigraphy at Brisbane, and has edited the recently published account of the geology of Queensland.

Those who know her will share my regret that even Professor Hills not­able mobility has not succeeded in bnnging her back to England (and I think she would like it expressed that way) to receive the Lyell Medal in person.

H M ROWE B.A. Dip.Ed. Lecturer in Education (Modern Languages)

Mr Rowe 1s a graduate in Arts of the University of Melbourne. In 1953 he completed, with first class honours, his degree in the School of French Language and Literature. This was followed by the course for the Diploma of Education.

For the past ten years, Mr Rowe has been teaching French and German in state high schools in Victoria and has at the same time been engaged m the training of student teachers under the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne.

During his term as a teacher he has also been engaged in adult education, migrant education, and the teaching of Japanese.

His main interests are foreign languages and literatures lmguistics, philology and methods of teaching foreign languages.