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THE MUELLER MEDALLIST, 1913. 



The Mueller medal was awarded to the Rev. W. Howchin, 

 F.G.S., at the Melbourne meeting o£ the Association in 1913. 



Mr. Howchin's geological research work is specially associated 

 with the State of South Australia, where for many years he held 

 the position of lecturer in geology at the University of Adelaide. 

 His earlier investigations were largely of a pal^eontological nature, 

 and concerned mainly with the group of the Foraminifera ; but 

 during the last twenty years he has become more and more widely 

 known for the value of his researches into the nature and distribu- 

 tion of ancient glacial deposits in that State. He has largely 

 extended our knowledge of the Permo-Carboniferous glaciation so 

 widespread in Australia. His name is, however, specially asso- 

 ciated with the discovery and detailed descrij)tion of the remarkable 

 Lower Cambrian glacial deposits of South Australia, deposits 

 whose relations to older rocks and to overlying Cambrian sediments 

 he has elucidated, and whose widespread distribution in South Aus- 

 tralia , he has clearly demonstrated. In quite another field of 

 work, he has made valuable additions to knowledge, namely, in 

 unravelling the physiography of the Mount Lofty Ranges and 

 the region round Adelaide. Recently, he has brought together 

 his wide knowledge of the geology of South Australia by the 

 publication of a well-written text-book. His fellow scientific 

 workers in Australia congratulate him on his appointment as 

 Honorary Professor of Geology at the University of Adelaide, a 

 post which he has recently resigned. He carries with him into his 

 retirement the good wishes of his scientific colleagues, and their 

 hope that, with increased leisure, he may be able to continue his 

 research work in the science in which he has for so long borne a 

 conspicuous part in Australia. — E. W. S. 



