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THE retirement of Prof. O. T. Jones from the Woodwardian professorship of geology at Cambridge on September 30 took many of his friends by surprise, so little sign did he show of his approach to the age limit set by the University Statutes. He went to Cambridge from Manchester in 1930, well fitted by his researches in Wales to foster that interest in Lower Palæozoic stratigraphy and physiographical problems which has long been associated with the Cambridge school of geology. In this work he was prodigal of personal effort, and the intense fervour with which he threw himself into unravelling the complexities of 'slumping' in the Silurian rocks of Denbighshire is not likely to be forgotten by his staff and students of that time. By no means, however, did he limit himself to these fields, but continually found fresh interests to expound in which his insight seldom failed to bring out new points of capital importance. Indeed his tenure of the chair will be notable for its encouragement of interest in allied subjects ; he established a close liaison with experimental geophysics and he was equally ready to collaborate with botanists and archaeologists over the problems of the Fenland and Breckland of East Anglia, and with engineers in the laboratory study of stressed rocks.
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Retirement of Prof. O. T. Jones, F. R. S. Nature 152, 559 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152559c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152559c0