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FIRST PART-TIME PROFESSORDr. Harry William Garlick has been appointed parttimeprofessor in the Monash department of Medicine atPrince Henry's Hospital. This is the first part-time professionalappointment to be made at Monash. Suchappointments allow distinguished men in the communityto become closely associated with the University and itswork.Born at Cranbourne, Victoria, Professor Garlickwent to the University of Melbourne where he graduatedBachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1941and Doctor of Medicine in 1949. From 1950-51 he didpostgraduate work at London Hospital. During the warhe served in New Guinea and New Britain as a captainin the Australian Army Medical Corps.He has been Honorary Physician to In-Patients atPrince Henry's Hospital since 1962. From 1954-61 hewas sub-dean of the hospital's clinical school and in 1965was appointed dean.Professor Garlick is married and has three daughters.FIRST CHAIR OF [CON01>lIC HISTORYThe foundation chair of Economic History in theUniversity is held by Professor John McCarty wholectured in economics at the University of New SouthWales and who, since 1961. had been senior lecturerin economic history at the University of Sydney.A graduate in commerce of the University of Melbourne,he obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophyfrom the University of Cambridge in ]961.In ]962 he became editor of the Australian EconomicReview and has been co-editor since 1966.At present Professor l\1cCarty is working on twobooks, one of which is based on his Ph.D. thesis "Britishinvestment in overseas mining 1880-1914". He is also,in conjunction with Dr. Hughes of the AustralianNational University, writing on the economic history ofAustralia.Proiessor J. McK. WaftsProfessor H. W. GarlickCHAIR OF ZOOLOGYUnder Dr. J. W. Warren, who has been appointedto the chair of Zoology, Monash became the only Australianuniversity to carry out research in paleontology.Professor Warren graduated as Master of Arts fromthe University of California and in J961 received thedegree of Doctor of Philosophy from the same University.After he left the United States he became alecturer in the department of Zoology at Monash andearly in 1967 was made acting chairman of the departmentwhen the late Professor A. J. Marshall was appointedto a personal chair.He is primarily interested in the origins of highervertebrate groups and their early radiation and hascarried out work on fish remains in eastern Victoria,which represent the earliest known vertebrates inAustralia. He has also recently rediscovered a valuablefossil location in northern Victoria. He was mammalolegistwith an ecological survey in the arctic regions ofAlaska, and in 1961 the Society of Sigma XI allowedhim a travel grant to work with the major paleontologicalcollections in the United States.Professor Warren spent the early part of this yearstudying the northern hemisphere collections in Britainand the United States.Proicssor J. W. rVWUflProfessor J. W. McCartyfOURTH CHAIR OF l.cOUCATIONThe fourth chair of Education has been filled byProfessor Ronald Taft.He is the permanent Australian delegate to theAssembly of the International Union on Psychology, anda fellow of both the British Psychological Society andthe American Psychological Association. He is also amember of the Social Science Research Council of Australiaand New Zealand and of the Indian PsychologicalAssociation.From 1942 to 1945 he was employed as an industrialand personnel adviser in the Department of Aircraft Productionand the Australian Institute of Management. In1950 he became a research assistant and foundation staffmember of the Institute of Personality Assessment andResearch in the University of California. He has heldappointments as senior lecturer and as reader in psychologyat the University of Western Australia, andsince 1966 he has been reader in psychology at MelbourneUniversity.Professor Taft graduated as Bachelor of Arts fromthe University of Melbourne and went on to graduateas Master of Arts from Columbia University in ]941.In 1950 he received his Ph.D. from the University ofCalifornia where his fields of work were personalityand social psychology.37