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IT is announced that Dr. Duncan Leitch, at present lecturer in geology in the University of Glasgow, has been appointed to succeed Prof. T. Neville George as professor of geology at Swansea. Dr. Leitch was trained under the late Prof. J. W. Gregory, with whom he carried out researches on the metallic minerals of Kirkcudbrightshire ancl on some caves of Galloway. Most of his subsequent work has related to the palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Carboniferous rocks, especially of Scotland, where in collaboration with Dr. John Weir he carried out an exhaustive study of the non-marine lamellibranchs of the Coal Measures and provided a sound basis for the correlation of the seams. In an important series of papers he has developed statistical methods, which are proving of wide application, for the study of fossils. There is great scope for statistical research in palæontology and in other branches of geology; and at Swansea, in close access to the areas where the standard sequence of Coal Measures zones was established, he will find good opportunities to extend these investigations.
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Geology at University College, Swansea. Nature 159, 329 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159329a0
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