also served on the demobilisation planning committee for women's services following the war. Later career From 1946 to 1955, Hill served as the third secretary of the Great Barrier Reef Committee. She was instrumental in getting facilities at the Heron Island Research Station constructed. Her efforts included raising money, shipping in materials, and even building items for the facilities such as water tanks. Through campaigning, she was able to receive grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Australian Research Grants Committee. The money was used to improve the laboratory facilities and provide accommodation for visitors. She appointed Dr. W.G.H. Maxwell to a lecturing position in the department of geology, and he made several contributions to further benefit the Reef. Hill was appointed a full lecturer at UQ in 1946. In 1952, she was appointed senior lecturer before becoming chief lecturer in 1956, reader in geology in 1958, and research professor in 1959. She became a full professor in 1960. During 1952, Professor John W. Wells of Cornell University visited the University of Queensland as a Fulbright Scholar. He was also a world authority on coelenterates. As a result of their meeting, Hill and Wells were able to work together on eight sections on coelenterates for the 1956 publication, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, which continues to be updated today. Hill wrote a second volume for the treatise on Archaeocyatha in 1972. In 1947, Hill was president of the Royal Society of Queensland. In 1952, she was chairman of the Geological Society of Australia, Queensland Division. In 1956 Hill became the first female fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. From 1958 to 1964, she was editor of the Journal of the Geological Society of Australia. In 1964, Hill was awarded the Lyell Medal for scientific research and became the first Australian woman to be a Fellow of the Royal Society (of London). In 1968, she formed the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists. Hill served on the Australian Academy of Science committees, becoming vice-president in 1969 and the first female president in 1970, following the death of David Forbes Martyn. At the end of her term of office she did not seek re-election. She also made statements in the late 1960s and early 1970s, to promote female enrolments in science, discouraged by the slow growth in the area, and push toward a campaign aimed at parents. In 1971, Hill became president of the