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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 19, No. 2. March 10, 1955

In Retriment Comes. . . — Further Recognition For Professor

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In Retriment Comes. . .

Further Recognition For Professor

Professor C. A. Cotton, D.Sc, HON. LL.D., A.O.S.M., F.G.S, F.R.S.N.Z., Victoria Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society, Hector and Hutton Medallist; Correspondent of the Geological Society of America and Corresponding Member of the Geological Society, of Belgium. Professor Emeritus of Victoria University College, was recently awarded the Andre Dumont Medal of the Geological Society of [unclear: Belgium]. The Belgiam Minister, M. Armand Nihotte, presented the award during an impressive ceremony.

The award, instituted in 1949 to mark the 100th anniversary of Dumont's completion of his geographical map of Belgium, had previously been awarded to an Italian, a British, a Polish, a Dutch and an American scientist.

Dr. Cetton who has been called "New Zealand's most distinguished living scientist," was born in Dunedin to 1885, where he studied at the Dunedin School or Mines. Later he became director at the Coramandel School of Mines, and in 1909 was appointed lecturer la Geology at Victoria University College. He took up the professorship in 1921. After 45 years to that Department, Dr. Cotton resigned from the professorship early teat year.

Professor Emeritus.

Last November he was admitted to the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa of the University of New Zealand, and also as emeritus professor of Victoria University College. At that ceremony, Dr. Williams principal of Victoria College, said that it was fitting that Dr. Cotton's eminence should be recognised; he had brought honour to the College and to the University, and had served the College with devotion and great distinction. Dr. Cotton had achieved the highest eminence as a teacher and writer in the field of geology and particularly of geomorphology. He is perhaps best known for his book "Gcomorphology" first published in 1922 and since greatly expanded, It is still used as a text-book, both at VUC and abroad. He has long been recognised as one of the world's leading geomorphologists.

World-Wide Renown

Presenting the award last week, M. Nihotte said that Professor Cotton had brought world-wide renown to New Zealand, as had Lord Rutherford to the reaim of physics Sir Peter Bock as an anthropologist, and Katherine Mansfield as a writer.

Dr. Cotton, M. Nihotte said, had acquired universal acclaim in the domain of geomorphology—the science of land forms—mainly through his published works, which were regarded throughout the world as classics. He had also particularly distinguished himself in the study of tec-tonio relief and in the study of scarps and valleys in relation to faults.

The Victoria College Council recently decided to establish a Cotton Memorial Prise for the most competent student of Geology I.

The following appointments have been made by the Executive, subject to the consent of the people concerned:—Finance Manager, Extravaganza, J. M. Whitta; business manager, Cappicade, W. Iles; procesh controller, J. Hutchison.

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NZUSA delegates from Victoria for Easter meeting are Messrs. Galvin, Iles and Whitta, who attended the meeting last August.

Mr A. A. Congalton, M.A., Dip. Ed., has been awarded a one-year fellowship by the social science division of the Rockefeller Foundation. Mr. Congaiton, senior lecturer in psychology at Victoria University, will, in the U.S.A, make "an intensive study of the conceptual and theoretical problems in social psychology" and sociology; and will attend courses of instruction at the University of Chicago dealing with community analysis, social change, social stratification, etc. He left New Zealand at the end of 1931 December, .

Under the Indecent Publication Amendment Act, 1951, and regulations gazetted to give effect thereto, the Students' Association has been officially registered with the Department of Justice as a distributor of printed matter.