University of Saskatchewan geologist Professor William Antony S. Sarjeant was one of two geologists elected this year to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada. His citation read:

William Sarjeant, University of Saskatchewan, has not only published numerous significant articles on fossil vertebrate footprints and fossilized microplankton but has also become a well-known authority on the history of geology. His book on fossil and living dinoflagellates is recognized as a leading text. Publications on acritarchs have received wide acclaim. His international bibliography covers all publications in the Latin alphabet pertinent to the history of geology from its beginnings to 1984. The only one of its kind, and the one which has brief biographies of authors as well as references, it has become an invaluable research tool for geologists and historians alike.

Professor Sarjeant has been a member of the Faculty of the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, since 1972. He was a joint recipient of a Golden Trilobite Award from the Paleontological Soceity for his participation in the writing of A Classification of Living and Fossil Dinoflagellates and has also received the Sue Tyler Friedman medal of the Geological Society of London, the Founders' Medal of the Society for the History of Natural History and the History of Geology Award of the Geological Society of America. Under the pen-name Antony Swithin, he has published four novels of historical science fantasy, under the series title "The Perilous Quest for Lyonesse". A second Supplement to his bibliography of Geologists and the History of Geology, in three further volumes, is scheduled for publication early in 1996.

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Note: This article appeared in CAP Newsletter 18(3):17-18, 1995. The news item was submitted to the Newsletter by Dr. Sarjeant.