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THE following have been elected foreign members and foreign correspondents of the Geological Society of London: Prof. R. A. Daly, Sturgis Hooper professor of geology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, an authority on igneous rocks and mountain building and on coral reefs; Prof. Paul Niggli, University of Zurich, distinguished for his work on ore deposits and crystallography; and Prof. Bailey Willis, Stanford University, known for his work on geological structures, to be foreign members of the Society. Prof. C. P. Berkey, Columbia University, New York City, secretary of the Geological Society of America, who has carried out geological studies in Mongolia and elsewhere; Prof. H. A. Brouwer, University of Amsterdam, known for his work on the geology and petrology of the Dutch East Indies; Prof. Hans Cloos, University of Bonn, an authority on the tectonics of igneous intrusions; Prof. W. K. Gregory, curator in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, distinguished for his studies on fossil vertebrates; and Dr. Victor Van Straelen, director of the Natural History Museum in Brussels, distinguished for his work on fossil Crustacea, to be foreign correspondents of the Society.
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Geological Society Elections. Nature 130, 53 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130053a0
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