THE FOULERTON AWARD AND A NEW SPECIES Mr. H. E. P. Spencer, F.G.S., has received the Foulerton Award for 1957 for his research work in geology. Part of the citation by the President of the Geologists' Association may be of interest to members. " You have become an eminent authority on the Pleistocene of East Anglia and on the osteology of the larger mammalia of that period. From the nature of most Pleistocene deposits, exposures tend to be fleeting and sections even in the more permanent exposures tend to change rapidly. A consistent story in any area therefore depends on the continuous and meticulous recording of temporary exposures. This task you have discharged with conspicuous ability and success in your part of Suffolk." Mr. Spencer has also had the signal honour of having a new species of fossil wood named after him. Mr. D. W. Brett of University College, London, has published the results of his research on two specimens found by Mr. Spencer in the Annais and Magazine of Natural History, Series 12, Vol. IX, pp. 657665. The specimens were from a boulder of the London Clay Septaria which was exposed by tidal erosion on the left bank of the Orwell Estuary at Bridge Wood near Alnesbourne Priory, Nacton. Mr. Brett classifies the specimen ; " Two fragments of young branches, whose anatomical features are identical with those of Cercidiphyllum japonicum Sub. and Zucc., are described in detail and made the syntypes of a new fossil species Cercidiphyllum spenceri." The Suffolk Naturalists' Society offers its congratulations to Mr. Spencer on both these honours. NOTE. Cercidiphyllum Subold and Zuccarini, is to-day represented by two known species confined to China and Japan. C. japonicum Sub. and Zucc. is the type of the genus and is one of the largest deciduous trees in the temperate forests of north Japan and south-west China.
C. magnificum Nakai is a smaller tree with broader, more cordate leaves and a smoother bark. By a stränge coincidence a fine specimen of C. japonicum was seen recently by a party of Suffolk Naturalists visiting Little Haddon Hall. The species is exceedingly rare in this country. G. E.
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