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Award of Honorary Degree to Gerald Seligman By Universität Innsbruck

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2017

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The Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria, awarded the honorary degree of Doktor der Philosophic to Gerald Seligman, Founder of the Glaciological Society, at its Akademischen Festakt on 29 June 1963.

The citation for the degree referred to Mr. Seligman’s services to science and to glaciology in particular. The presentation oration was given by the Promotor, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Herfried Hoinkes.

A fuller account of the award will be published in No. 13 of the Society’s news bulletin, Ice.