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H P H E present issue of Notes and Records is the first since Septenv JL ber 1941, when publication was suspended owing to the war

and the shortage of paper. In the interval, Fellows have had to deplore the death of the Editor, Sir Henry Lyons, which took place on 10 August 1944. F°r an account of his activities and services to the Society, Fellows are referred to Obituary Notices o f Fellows o f the Royal Society, volume 4, number 13, page 795, 1944. Here it must suffice to add that his knowledge of the history and activities of the Society are and will be grievously missed by his successor in the Editorship.

The policy of Notes and Records will continue to be to keep the Fellows more fully informed of the activities of the Society, with accounts of the Anniversary Dinner, the Soirees, general information, and historical matters bearing on past Fellows and Foreign Members and on the conduct by the Society of its business. It is hoped shortly to include news of events affecting the Scientific Academies and Societies of the Dominions, India and other countries.

Contributions falling within this scope will be welcomed by the Editor, at the Society’s Rooms.

O bituary (continued from Volume 3, page 97)

1941*11 July30 July6 A ugust .

14 August .31 August .12 September 17 October

1 November

Sir A rthur J ohn Evans Professor A lfr ed J o seph C lark Professor J ohn C harles P h il ip Professor Paul Sa b a tier Dr W a lter G ardiner Professor A rthur G eorge G reen Dr J ohn Stanley P la sk ett E dgar V in c en t V iscount D ’A bernon

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I941-3 November

19 November 26 November28 November 12 December29 December

I942*15 January .16 January .12 March17 April15 May 19 May2 June5 J uly7 July

28 July3 August .

22 September 28 September

1 November 7 December

10 December 26 December26 December

1943.12 January . 14 January .27 January .27 January .16 March28 March

Sir A rthur W illiam H ill . Professor W alter N ernst . Dr H arry E ltringham . Dr W a lc o t G ibson . Professor Emile P icard . Professor T ullio L e v u C ivita

Professor H enri L eon L ebesgue

. R and all Ber k eley , Earl of Berkeley

. D uke of C onnaught and Stra th ea rn Sir W illiam H enry Bragg

. Professor J ean Ba p t is t e P errin

. Dr G eorge G erald Stoney

. Sir J oseph L armor

. Professor A ndrew R ussell F orsyth

. Sir A lfr ed D a n iel H all

. Professor W illiam H enry Y oung

. Sir W illiam M atth ew F lin ders P e t r ie

. Professor R ichard W illsta tter

. Professor E dward Fa w c ett

. Professor G eorge G erald H enderson

. Professor J. N orman C o llie

. Dr E dgar J ohnson A llen

. Sir H enry A lexa nder M iers

. Professor F rank D awson A dams

. Professor A rthur W illey

. Dr C harles T ate R egan

. Dr A lexander R ussell 1 Professor C linton C olerid ge Farr . Dr F rank Sturdy S innatt

Sir Sydney Burrard . E dward H eron A llen



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1943.4 April

24 April April

14 May 26 June16 July 24 July15 September 9 October

11 October17 October16 November 20 November

Sir E dw in Bu tler . Professor W arrin g to n Y orke . Professor D avid H ilb er t . Sir T homas M id d leto n . Dr K arl L a n d stein er . W illia m R obert Bo u sfield . Professor G erard J akob D e G eer . Dr H enry G uy E l l c o c k P ilgrim . Professor P ieter Z eem an . Dr G e o ffr e y T homas Ben n ett . Dr W illia m H erbert H a t f ie l d . C live C uthbertson . Sir E dward P oulton

1944-1 January .

21 January . 26 January . 26 January .22 February24 February 16 March30 March31 March25 April

3 July 28 July10 August .2 September4 October

23 October 22 November 22 November 28 November

. Dr F rank L ee P yman

. Dr W illiam W hitem an C arlton T o pley

. Dr F r ed er ic k D a n iel C hattaw ay

. Sir J ohn B retland Farmer

. Professor H ugh F rank N ew a ll

. J ames R eid M oir

. Sir D avid P rain

. Sir C harles V ernon Boys

. Sir T homas R ankin L yle

. Dr J ohn K e it h R oberts

. Professor A rthur H enry R eg in a ld Bu ller

. Sir R a lph H oward F ow ler

. Sir H enry G eorge L yons

. Sir A rthur Smith W oodward

. Sir J ohn C harles G rant L edingham

. Professor C harles G lover Barkla Sir A rthur Stanley E ddington

. Sir J oseph A rthur A w kw right Sir J ohn J acob F ox



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1945-15 January . Sir T homas Barlow

20 January . D r G uy D unstan Bengough

17 March Sir T homas L ew is

23 March Sir W illia m N a p ie r Shaw

18 A pril Sir J ohn A mbrose F lem ing

18 A pril A rthur R obert H inks

16 May D r Stanley W ells K emp

24 May Sir M a rtin O nslow F orster

11 June C harles Stew a rt M iddlem iss

2 July Sir P e ter C halmers M it c h e l l

11 July D r A lexa nder Sand

2 September Professor J ames T homas W ilson

6 September Rev. J ohn E rnest H ollow ay

17 September Professor C harles E dward Spearm an

29 September Professor E van J ames W illiam s

2 October Professor W a lter Bradford C annon

21 November D r F rancis W illiam A ston

4 December Professor T homas H unt M organ

11 December Professor M arie P aul A uguste C harles F abry

14 December D r E dward F rankland A rmstrong P rofessor N icholas Ivanovitch V avilov

1946.6 January . Professor E dw in St e p h e n G oodrich

21 January . D r H arry Batem an

28 February Professor J ohn Stanley G ardin er

8 March . D r F red er ic k W illiam L a n ch ester

24 March . Professor G ilb er t N ew ton L ewis

E lec tio n of Fellow s and F oreign M embers

Fellow s : 1942.Joshua Harold Burn Edward Charles DoddsFrank Macfarlane Burnet Arthur FageMalcolm Dixon Neil Ham ilton Fairley



F ellow s: 1942.Philip Hall Dudley Maurice NewittCharles Samuel Hanes Clifford Copland PatersonMaurice Paschal Alers Hankey, John Keith Roberts

Baron Hankey of the Chart Herbert Wakefield Banks SkinnerGeorge Hugh Henderson Thomas Percy Hilditch Edward Hindle Arthur Homes

David Thoday Alexander Robertus Todd Arthur Elijah Trueman Alan Herries Wilson

Foreign Members :Alfred Newton Richards Nicholas Ivanovich VavilovLeopold Ruzicka Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov

F ellow s: 1943.Sir Shanti Swarupa Bhatnagar Patrick Alfred Buxton Ivan de Burgh Daly Sir John Augustine Edgell Arthur James Ewins Arthur Felix Alexander Fleming John Jacob FoxWilliam Michael Herbert Greaves Sidney Cross Harland

George Armand Robert KonAndrew McCanceWilder PenfieldHenry Guy Ellcock PilgrimReginald Edward StradlingCharles SykesJohn Lighton SyngeGeorge Frederick James TempleAlexander Logie Du ToitSolly Zuckerman

Foreign M em bers:Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Bernardo Alberto Houssay

F ellow s: 1944.Ralph Alger Bagnold Ronald Percy Bell Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl Stanley Melbourne Bruce Cecil Reginald Burch Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar George Edward Raven Deacon Sir Jack Drummond

Alexander Thomas Glenny Ronald George Hatton Robert Downs Haworth William Ogilvy Kermack Franklin Kidd Bryan Austin McSwiney Guy Frederic Marrian Michael Polanyi



Fellows :Alec SandSir William Arthur Stanier Cyril James Stubblefield

1944-Oscar Werner Tiegs John Henry Constantine White

head

Foreign M em bers: Oswald Theodore Avery Maurice Lugeon Theodor Svedberg

Nils Eberhard Svedelius Stephen Timoshenko

F ellow s:Sir John Anderson Leonard Colebrook William Scott Farren Norman Feather John Henry Gaddum Harry Godwin John Masson Gulland Hildebrand Wolfe Harvey Vincent Charles Illing Albert Edward Ingham Herbert Davenport Kay

1945-Wilfrid Bennett Lewis Kathleen Lonsdale Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Rudolf Ernst Peierls John Monteath Robertson Frederick Maurice Rowe William Wright Smith Marjory Stephenson Barnes Neville Wallis John Zachary Young

Fellows :Agnes Arber Wilson Baker George Lindor Brown Gordon Roy Cameron Frank Dickens Harry Julius Emeleus Sir Frank Leonard Engledow Edmund Brisco Ford Robert Alexander Frazer Sir Claude Dixon Gibb Edward Armand Guggenheim Robert Hill Ernest Marsden

1946.William George Penney John Turton Randall Roderick Oliver Redman Archibald Read Richardson Louis Rosenhead John Alexander Sinton Harold Haydon Storey Harold Warris Thompson John William Trevan Lawrence Rickard Wager Francis Martin Rouse Walshe Charles Maurice Yonge



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T he R oyal So c ie t y L ec tu r es

Croonian Lecture 1942. 18 June€ C h rom atic Be h a v io u r ’

Lancelot HogbenBakerian Lecture 16 Ju ly

*A m inO 'A cid A nalysis and th e Str u c tu r e o f P rotein s ’Albert Charles Chibnall

Pilgrim Trust Lecture 1943- 20 M ay‘ O r g a n iza tio n of A m erican Sc ien tists fo r th e W ar ’

Karl T. ComptonBakerian Lecture i j June‘ R e la x a tio n M ethods : A M ath em a tics fo r E n g in eer in g

Sc ien c es ’Robert Vynne Southwell

Croonian Lecture 15 Ju ly‘ N u tr it io n in R el a t io n to Bone G row th and th e N ervous

System *Edward Mellanby

Ferrier Lecture 1944. M ay* T he O r g a n iza tio n of th e V isual C ortex in M a n *

Gordon Morgan HolmesBakerian Lecture 15 June

* T he Str u c t u r e , F u n c tio n and Synthesis of P olysaccharides ’

Walter Norman HaworthCroonian Lecture 13 Ju ly

T h y r o x in e : its B iosynthesis and its Immuno^C hemistry ’Charles Robert Harington

Bakerian Lecture 1945. June* M eteo ro lo g y of th e L ow er Str a to sph er e ’

Gordon Miller Bourne DobsonCroonian Lecture 12 July

* T he Str u ctu re of B io l o g ic a l F ibres and the P roblem of M u scle ’

William Thomas Astbury



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Croonian Lecture (1940) 1 1945. 25 October* T he A c tiv e and P assive Ex chan ges o f I norga nic I ons T hrough th e Su r fa c es o f L iving C ells and T hrough

L iving M em branes G e n e r a l l y ’Schack August Steenberg Krogh

Pilgrim Trust Lecture 1 November‘ T he G en e ’

Herman J. Muller

AWARD OF MEDALS 19401945T he C opley M edal The D a v y M edal

1940 P a u l L a n g ev in 1940 H aro ld C la y to n U rey

1941 T h o m a s L e w is 1941 H en ry D rysdale D a k in

1942 R obert R o b in so n 1942 C y ril N o rm a n H in sh e lw o o d

1943 Joseph Barcroft 1943 Ian M orris H eilb ro n

1944 Geoffrey Ingram T aylor 1944 R obert R obertson

1945 O sw a ld T h eod ore A v ery 1945 R oger A d a m s

The R um ford M edal The D arw in M edal

1940 K arl M anne G eorg S iegb ah n 1940 Jam es Peter H il l

1942 G ord on M iller B ourne D o b so n 1942 D a v id M eredith Seares W a tso n

1944 Harry R a lp h R icard o 1944 J o h n Stanley G ardiner

The R o ya l M edals T he Buchanan M edal

1940 Patrick M aynard Stuart 1942 W illia m W ilso n Jam eson

Blackett

1940 Francis H u g h A d a m M arshall The Sylvester M edal

1941 E d w ard A rth u r M iln e 1940 G odfrey H aro ld H ard y

1941 Ernest L aurence K en n aw ay 1943 J o h n E densor L ittlew o o d

1942 W alter N o rm a n H aw orth

1942 W illia m W h item a n C arlton The Hughes M edal

T o p ley 1940 A rth u r H . C o m p to n1943 H aro ld Spencer Jones 1941 N e v ill Francis M ott1943 E d w ard Battersby B ailey 1942 E n rico Ferm i

1944 D a v id Brunt 1943 M arcus L aurence E lw in O lip h a n t1944 C harles R obert H arin gton 1944 G eorge Ingle F in ch1945 J o h n D esm o n d Bernal 1945 B asil F erd in a n d J a m ieso n1945 E dw ard Jam es Salisbury S ch o n la n d

1 Professor K rogh was prevented from giving this lecture in 1940.



Bequests1941

Sir Robert Hadjield.—The Treasurer reported on 20 February 1941that Sir Robert Hadfield bequeathed to the Society the sum of ^1000 free of duty for general research, and one^tenth of his residuary estate, after the death of Lady Hadfield, in aid of cancer research work.

Sir A rthur H ill.—The Treasurer reported on 11 December 1941 that Sir Arthur Hill bequeathed to the Society ^1000 free of duty to be used as thought most proper for the benefit of science in general and of the Society in particular.

I942-D r A . R . Forsyth.—The Treasurer reported on 16 July 1942 that

Dr A . R. Forsyth bequeathed the residue of his estate to the Society for the furtherance of medical research.

D r G . G . Stoney.—The Treasurer reported on 16 July 1942 that Dr G. G. Stoney had bequeathed the residue of his estate to the Society for use at the discretion of Council.

Sir Joseph Larmor.—The Treasurer reported on 22 October 1942 that Sir Joseph Larmor had bequeathed the sum of ̂ 250 free of duty to the Scientific Relief Fund ‘ in remembrance of early associations.’

1944-James Reid Moir.—The Treasurer reported on 20 April 1944 that the

late James Reid Moir had bequeathed his residuary estate to the Society in trust to aid research in the archaeology of the Stone Age in England.

G ifts1941-

The American Philosophical Society presented 10,000 dollars in aid of science in Britain.

The Rockefeller Foundation of New York presented 12,500 dollars in aid of scientific publications by societies and associations in Britain in the year 1941.

The American Physiological Society presented 5000 dollars in aid of British scientific publications, especially in physiology.

A letter from Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, P.R.S., to Louis Pasteur, and the draft of the latter’s reply on the occasion of the award to Pasteur of the Copley Medal; also a letter of congratulation from J. B. Dumas to Pasteur, were presented by Dr Vallery^Radot.



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A miniature of H. B. de Saussure, For.Mem.R.S., was presented by E. C. Hornblower, Esq., F.S.A.

A photograph of the late Sir Albert Seward was presented by Lady Seward.

A chair which stood in the Society’s apartments in Crane Court was presented by the Royal Scottish Corporation.

^500 in aid of scientific publications was presented by Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.

The sum of .£14, os. iod., being oneTourth part of the proceeds of the sale of a medal awarded to Dr Wayland Vaughan by the National Academy of Sciences of America, was presented by Dr Wayland Vaughan through Viscount Halifax.

A copy of a portrait of the late Sir William Hardy, F.R.S., drawn from photographs by Mr Francis Dodd, was presented by the Master and Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

1942.15,000 dollars in aid of scientific publications by societies and

associations in Britain was presented by the Rockefeller Foundation of New York.

6 microfilm cameras and 30 reading machines for allocation by the Society to institutions or individuals to facilitate the distribution of current scientific publications in the British Isles, were presented by the Rockefeller Foundation of New York.

^500 in aid of scientific publications by the Society was presented by the Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.

A gold snuffbox studded with diamonds, presented by King William of Wurtemberg to Charles Blacker Vignoles, F.R.S., in 1844, was presented by his grandsons, Mr E. B. Vignoles, M.I.E.E., and Lieutenant'Colonel W . A . Vignoles, D .S.O ., M.I.E.E.

A number of MSS. belonging to the late Andrew Russell Forsyth, F.R.S., were presented by Mr G. Harrison.

The late A . R. Forsyth’s MS. o f ‘Geometry of Four Dimensions’ was presented by Sister A . P. Dempster.

A portrait of Sir William Robert Grove, F.R.S., was entrusted to the Society on permanent loan by Mrs Grove^Hills.



1943 .

^37^5 t0 be administered by the Society in aid of scientific pub/ lications by societies and associations in Britain during the year 1943 was presented by the Rockefeller Foundation of New York.

£500 in aid of scientific publications by the Society was presented by Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.

A mezzotint portrait of John Vaughan, Earl of Carbery, P.R.S., 1686/1689, was presented by Professor E. N. da C . Andrade.

A collection of letters belonging to Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Secretary, R.S., 1824/1827, was presented by the Reverend Sir John Herschel.

A framed engraving of Louis Pasteur in his Laboratory was presented by Sir Wyndham Dunstan.

A plaster cast of the bust of Copernicus was presented by the Copernicus Celebrations Committee.

1944-^500 in aid of scientific publications by the Society was presented

by Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.^3715 to be administered by the Society in aid of scientific pub/

lications by societies and associations in Britain during the year 1944 was presented by the Rockefeller Foundation of New York.

^2000 to open a Horace Darwin Fund to purchase instruments for research institutions in enemy occupied countries needing re/equip/ ment after the war was presented by an anonymous donor.

A metal medallion partly gilded dated 1740 on which is depicted the bust of Martin Folkes, P.R.S., 1741/1752, was presented by Sir John Edgell.

A letter from Lord Kelvin to Sir Courtenay Boyle dated 6 May 1892 was presented by the Lord Southborough.

A mezzotint of the Earl of Halifax, P.R.S., 1695^1698, was presented by Professor E. N. da C . Andrade.

The Priestley gavel, made by Dr Wallace P. Cohoe from per/ simmon wood growing in the garden of Priestley’s house in America was presented by the Society of Chemical Industry.

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^ 5 00 in aid ° f scientific publications by the Society was presented by Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.

.£3715 to be administered by the Society in aid of scientific pub/ lications by societies and associations in Britain during the year 1945 was presented by the Rockefeller Foundation of New York.

.£10, 1 os. od. to the Horace Darwin Fund was presented by Messrs. Baird and Tatlock.

A letter from Sir Isaac Newton dated 21 April 1677 to Dr John North afterwards Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, was pre/ sented by Mr Roger North.

A replica of the medal struck on the occasion of the centenary of the founding of the Royal Society of Tasmania, was presented by the Royal Society of Tasmania.

Thirty/six volumes of works by Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729/1799) were presented by Mrs Bulloch from the library of the late Dr William Bulloch, F.R.S.

A letter from Sir Joseph Banks, dated 28 October 1810, was presented by Mrs D. N. Twort.

The following donors have also made gifts to the Horace Darwin F und :

Dr and Mrs A . E. Barclay; Miss M. E. Dunstan; Miss A . Fry; Sir Richard Paget; Miss G. M. Pye/Smith; Mrs F. H. Rawstone and Mr. R. S. Whipple.

In addition the following companies have undertaken to give instruments to the value of the amounts specified:

Cambridge Instrument Company Ltd., ^1000; Henry Hughes & Sons Ltd., ^1000; Kelvin, Bottomley Sc Baird Ltd., -£500; Salford Electrical Instruments Ltd., ^250 ; Adam Hilger Ltd., ^200 ; E. R. Watts Sc Son Ltd., ^200 ; W . Ottway Sc Company Ltd., ^200 ; L. Oertling Ltd., ^200 ; W . Edwards Sc Company (London) Ltd., -£200; Foster Instrument Company Ltd., ^200 ; Sunvic Controls Ltd., ^100 ; W . Watson Sc Sons Ltd., -£100; Ross Ltd., ^100 ; Sigma Instrument Company Ltd., X 100 J Belling/ ham Sc Stanley Ltd. have offered one polarimeter.



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