The Earth Sciences in Canada

In June 1967, the Earth Science Division of the Royal Society of Canada held a symposium to assess the country’s activities and accomplishments in the earth sciences and to provide some guidelines and predictions for the future. The papers given at the symposium are collected in this volume.

E.R.W. NEALE graduated from McGill University in 1949 and took his doctorate at Yale in 1952. After teaching mineralogy at the University of Rochester and heading the Appalachian research unit of the Geological Survey of Canada, he became Commonwealth Geological Liaison officer in London, England. In this position he helped co-ordinate research and facilitate the flow of ideas between earth science research institutes throughout the British Commonwealth from 1963 to 1965. Following his return to Canada, he became Head of the Precambrian Shield section of the Geological Survey of Canada. He is now professor and Head of the Geology Department of Memorial University of Newfoundland.