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THE Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London is awarded to honour those who have made “researches concerning the mineral structure of the earth”. The very appropriate choice of Prof. R. A. Daly to be this year's recipient of the Medal will be endorsed with enthusiasm by his many friends and admirers. A Canadian by birth and a graduate of the University of Toronto, Daly began his long association with Harvard in 1892, first as a graduate student and afterwards as an instructor in geology. In 1901 he resigned this post to take up a Canadian appointment as geologist on the International Boundary Commission. Ten years of work resulted in a map of, and report on, a 400-mile belt along the 49th parallal from the Pacific, across the Western Cordillera, to the Great Plains. The two following seasons were devoted to the C.P.R. section through the mountains. These arduous years gave him the experience that led to the writing in 1913 of his most famous book, “Igneous Rocks and their Origin”, which, rewritten twenty years later as “Igneous Rocks and the Depths of the Earth”, remains as an outstanding contribution to petrology. Ori the resignation of W. M. Davis from the Sturgis Hopper res arch professorship at Harvard in 1912, Daly was selected as his successor.
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Prof. R. A. Daly: Wollaston Medallist. Nature 149, 164 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149164a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149164a0