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DR. J. H. TAYOR. who succeeds Prof. Gordon as professor of geology at King's College, London in September, was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, and was an undergraduate at King's College. As such, he distinguished himself in every field, in schalarship, athletics and general service to the college. He obtained first-class honours in geology Final Examinations of the University of London, and, as the most distinguished man of his year in science at King's College, he was awarded the Jelf Medal, the most prized distinction to which a student can aspire: After a year's service on the staff of the Geological Department at King's College, he was elected to a Henry Fellowship at Harvard University, and while there he obtained the degree of A.M. Returning to Britain to join the Geological Survey of Great Britain, he continued his petrological researches into the rocks of the East Midlands, and particularly the sedimentary iron ores and associated rocks of Northamptonshire and Leicestershire. He was, consequently, selected as a member of the party asked to study and report upon the mining methods in Germany used to work the Cretaceous iron ores of the Salzgitter-Ilsede region, and the Dogger ores of Bavaria, Württemberg and Baden. While a member London, and has been a member of Council of that College for many years. It will be clear from these varied activities that Dr. Taylor is a man of personality and drive. He has had a wide experience in geological work in the class-room and in the field in Britain, America and on the Continent, and will bring ahighly trained, versatile and well-balanced mind to ihf problems of university education in geology.
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King's College, London : Dr. J. H. Taylor. Nature 163, 474–475 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163474b0
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