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niu rrsiftJ ([;nllrnr, �nrklnnb. SPECIAL ELEMENTARY COURSE OF LECTURES ON MINING GEOLOGY. A Special Elementary Course of Ten Lectures, on the applications of Geology to l\Iining, will be given by the Professor of Geology. in the Geological Lecture- Room, in Parliament Street,_ on Thursdays, at 8 p.m , commencing Thursday, June 10, 1897. The Lectures are designed for those who are preparing to enter the mining profession, or otherwise require Geological knowledge for the purposes of Mining. The Lectures will be Illustrated, and will include the following Subjects: Rocks and lVIinerals- f-I O\V lVIinerals are recognised Classification of rocks accordino·b to oriainb and composition-Rock structures :-Stratification,] oints, Dip and strike,· Faults, etc.--Ore Deposits, their characters and origin-! nfluence of Country-Rock Recovery of Lost Lodes-Gold and Silver. The Fee for the Course will be Five Shillings. Tickets may be obtained from the Registrar, or from the University booksellers, Messrs Upton & Co. and Messrs Champta.loup and Cooper. Contents Page INTRODUCTION by R. N. Brothers................. .........................2 THE FOUNDING FATHER: PROFESSOR A. P. W. THOMAS by A. E. Wright. ............ 4 PROFESSOR A. P. W. THOMAS: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF THE TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE by R. F. Keam .......................................................... ...........? MIDNIGHT BY TARAWERA LAKE by A. P. W. Thomas ..... 1 0 IMPRESSIONS OF J. A. BARTRUM AS A UNIVERSITY TEACHER by F. J. Turner ... ...... .......... .. ..... ................. .... 12 THE THIRTIES AND FORTIES by E. J. Searle ..................... 15 THE PERIOD 1951-74 by A. R. Lillie .....................................21 THE DECADE 1974-1983 by R. N. Brothers .........................3 0 SNIPPETS FROM THE PAST by A. P. Mason. .....................33 LISTS OF STAFF ............................................................ .......36 GEOLOGY DEPARTMENT THESES, 1919-1983 . ................37 1 Introduction R.N. Brothers Professor of Geology University of Auckland For the compilation of this record of the years until given temporary and and honours in addition in electricity and Geology Department we have put part-time help by E. J. Searle and C. R. magnetism. These arduous courses together a collection of essays wh ich Laws in the early 1930s. were completed in four years, for the last deal with successive periods of Professor Bartrum was the father of of which Bartrum held a semor departmental growth and development . the modern department which still University scholarship in physics. Two articles describing the activities and carries the imprint of his scientific During this time he found time to play influence of A. P. W. Thomas (by personality - geology on a broad front much Rugby football and was a member Anthony Wright and Ron Keam) were, of investigation, with fieldwork as a basic of the most famous combination of of necessity, dependent upon historical ingredient for both teaching and players Otago University ever put in the research. For a man of his time, and documents, but other contributions have field, a team which visited Australia, and bearing in mind that he had no overseas been based upon the personal whose visit to Sydney University is still experience, Bartrum was outstanding as experiences of Frank Turner, Ernie remembered. To his football associates a research worker. As pointed out by K. Searle and Arnold Lillie, covering almost and very numerous college friends Sinclair (A History of the University of sixty years. Bartrum was always "Jimmie", a Auckland 1883-1983), by 1929 the nickname attached to him from his first A. P. W. Thomas chemists had published thirty-four appearance at Timaru High School, The Department of Geology had its papers in scientific journals and Bartrum where the youngster, just arrived from origins as a subject taught within a had published thirty-six. A very clear the farm, had sturdily refused, under "outside" assessment of Bartrum and Department of Natural Science which considerable pressure , to disclose his his achievements was given by a had, as foundation professor, A. P. W. real name. His interest in Rugby football colleague, Professor C. A. Cotton of Thomas who took up his appointment on never waned. Throughout his later life Victoria University College (Proceedings 1 May 1883. The first classes were he attended many University matches Volume, Geological Society of America structured as part of a BA degree and and, indeed, gave up much time to the were given in the Old District Annual Report for 1949). more practical business of coaching the Courthouse in Eden Street, roughly "John Arthur Bartrum was born May forwards. about the site of the present entrance to 24, 1885, at Geraldine, New Zealand Graduating from the University of the Station Hotel. The title of the and died June 7, 1949, at Rotorua. Son department was changed to Biology and of a South Canterbury farmer, he was Otago, Bartrum joined the New Zealand Geological Survey, then newly Geology in 1886; in 1887 the one of a family of seven children. Taught organised under the directorship of classrooms were transferred to the at home by his mother in his early years, James Mackintosh Bell, with whom he Museum Annex on the corner of Princes he later attended Raincliff School from had already been associated in vacation Street and Eden Crescent, and at the which he won a scholarship which took field work. For a short period he taught same time a BSc degree was him at the age of 11 to Timaru High at Canterbury Agricultural College, introduced. School, where the headmaster was the Lincoln, but returned to the Survey as a Following a disagreement over progressive but unconventional George field geologist after Percy Gates Morgan funding of a superannuation scheme, Hogben, afterwards Director of became director and remained with it Thomas resigned his Chair in 1913 and Education for New Zealand and a until his appointment to Auckland retired at the end of that year. He seismologist of note. After some years at University College early in 1914. In the continued to live in Mt Eden and became Timaru, Bartrum moved on, with the help field he was associated with both a prominent citizen in Auckland as of a senior Education Board scholarship, Morgan and John Henderson, since also Chairman of the Grammar School Board to the Christchurch Boys' High School, director of the Survey, assisting the (1916-1937), member of the University which had on its staff at that time Robert former in the survey of the West Coast Council (1919-1925), cultivator of Speight, late Fellow of the Geolog ical of the South Island and the latter in the exquisite daffodils, and a familiar fiQure Society of America, the botanist R. M. in the city being driven by his chauffeur Laing, and Oscar T. J. Alpers, then a gold-mining districts of the North Island. In those days of geological exploration in in a Packard limousine (he had made a brilliant exponent of English Literature mountainous parts of the South Island fortune from timber shares). and afterwards a judge of the Supreme all journeys were made laboriously on Court and author of the New Zealand foot, and the geologists had to carry all d. A. Bartrum classic Cheerful Yesterdays. stores and camping equipment on their Perhaps as a result of Thomas' He passed on in 1904 to Otago own backs, living most of the time in retirement, and certainly with notable University and School of Mines, where flying camps in the wet bush. Field notes perspicacity, the University College took James Park was professor of Mining and were written up in the tent by the opportunity in 1914 to establish a Patrick Marshall lecturer in geology. candlelight. Morgan was a dogged separate Department of Geology; it was Bartrum entered on a combined course plotter who spared neither himself nor not until 1933 that Botany and Zoology of professional training in mining, his assistants; and the field seasons achieved departmental status. J. A. metallurgy, and geology, for the spent with him on the West Coast left Bartrum was appointed in 1914 as associateship of the School of Mines Bartrum with a permanently lame foot, lecturer-in-charge of the new and undertook, at the same time, the rheumatism, and seriously impaired department, and he was promoted to a University course leading to degrees of general health. Chair in 1927, but he remained the sole BSc and MSc, graduatin£ at the master teacher of the subject for almost twenty stage with first class honours in geology Appointed at first lecturer in charge of 2 the geology courses at Auckland Professor Bartrum enjoyed Victoria University College as Senior University College, Bartrum was conversation with all sorts and Lecturer in Geology in 1947. The promoted a few years later to the rank of conditions of men. He loved to talk and periods of service by Bartrum full professor, retaining that position to relate reminiscences to student (191 4-1 949) and Lillie (1951 -1974) the end of his life, and becoming a audiences, especially round the meant that the Geology Department well-known figure not only in the camp-fire. This trait, together with the enjoyed continuity in successive University but in the life of the Auckland pains he took in arranging and leading occupancy of the establishment post by community. In 1912 he had married camping excursions as field courses, two very able and congenial geologists Constance Lorie, and when the pair endeared him to many. for about sixty years. To those of us who moved to Auckland two years later they He took both his religious and his worked with both of them, these two made their home at Takapuna, where patriotic duties very seriously, the latter men obviously showed some important their family had their schooling . to the extent of serving, in spite of characteristics -a natural self-effacing In 1928 Professor Bartrum was physical disabilities, as a corporal in the modesty and a lack of selfishness elected a Fellow of the Geological Home Guard , a service which led him to which account in large part for the spirit Society of London, and in 1929 of The undergo what stronger men of his age of cohesiveness that has always Geological Society of America.