Association of Australasian Palaeontologists
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING – PROXY FORM
I will not be attending the Annual General Meeting of the Association of Australasian
Palaeontologists to be held on 15 June 2015. I hereby indicate my intentions, votes
and views by using a tick, cross or other appropriate mark within or replacing the
relevant square.
I empower to act as my proxy at this meeting:
☐ the AAP Chair, or
☐ [print name of person attending] _________________________________
BUSINESS AGENDA ITEMS
2. Ballot on proposed change of name of AAP to Australasian Palaeontologists
☐ I support the proposed name change to Australasian Palaeontologists
☐ I support a change of name to ___________________________________
☐ I support retention of the existing name Association of Australasian
Palaeontologists
4. Ballot on name of AAP biennial early career prize
The following candidates are proposed as eponyms for the AAP early career prize.
Names are listed in order of birth year. Brief outlines of each candidate, including
specialities and geographic ambit of activities within Australasia, are provided.
Please indicate one candidate only. Members may alternatively vote for a candidate
not listed, by writing in the preferred name.
☐ Nell Hooper Ludbrook (née Woods) (1907-1995): Cenozoic, Mesozoic,
late Palaeozoic invertebrates (molluscs, foraminifers); SA, Vic, Christmas
Island.
Biography and bibliography in ‘Stratigraphy, palaeontology, malacology.
Papers in honour of Dr Nell Ludbrook’. Dept of Mines & Energy South
Australia, Special Paper 5.
Obituary in The Australian Geologist 95 (June 1995), pp 48-49.
Biography at http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/500530?c=people
☐ Mary Julia Wade (1928–2005): Cenozoic microfossils (foraminifers),
Mesozoic vertebrates (dinosaurs, marine reptiles) and invertebrates
(molluscs), early Palaeozoic invertebrates (molluscs), Ediacaran metazoans;
SA, Qld, NT.
Biographies at http://earthsci.org/fossils/ichthyosaurs/mary%20wade.html
and http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004620b.htm
☐ Elizabeth Marchant Truswell (née Kemp) (1941-): Cenozoic, Mesozoic,
mid-late Palaeozoic palynology; NT, WA, Tas, NSW, SA, SE Indian Ocean,
Ninety East Ridge, Southern Ocean.
Biographies at https://www.science.org.au/node/450760
http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0673b.htm
http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003648b.htm
http://www.gsa.org.au/recognition/Biographies%20S%20-%20Z.html
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elizabeth_Truswell2
☐ Dirk Megirian (1958-2009): Cenozoic vertebrates; SE Aust, Qld, NT.
☐ Candidate of my choice: ________________________________________
6. Honorarium to John Laurie for his years of service as editor of AAP Memoirs
☐ I do not support the proposed honorarium to the AAP Memoirs Editor
☐ I support the proposed honorarium to the AAP Memoirs Editor, in the range
$________________________
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