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HIS Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to approve the recommendations made by the Council of the Royal Society for the award of the two Royal Medals for the current year as follows: to Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer-Royal, for his determination of the solar parallax and of other fundamental astronomical constants ; to Dr. E. B., Bailey, director of H. M. Geological Survey, for his distinguished contributions to the knowledge of mountain structure and his studies on the tectonics of vulcanism.
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Royal Society: Medal Awards. Nature 152, 559 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152559b0
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