John Marwick
While at Waitaki Boys' High School he helped to collect fossil shells and learned the beginnings of how to classify molluscs.He studied and taught at the University of Otago, and in 1912 gained an MA with first-class honours in with a thesis on geology.With the coming of the First World War Marwick joined the New Zealand Medical Corps in 1916, and was posted to Egypt.As the only Geological Survey palaeontologist, Marwick named most of the common New Zealand Tertiary fossils, as well as many rarer ones.Apart from his work with oil companies, he took to completion research on turritellid gastropods and New Zealand faunal studies.