Exchange of delegations between the Royal Society and The U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, 1965

1966 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-79
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Vice President ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Mathematics Professor ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Initial Meeting ◽  
Foreign Member

At the invitation of the President of the Royal Society, a delegation from the U. S. S. R. Academy of Sciences, led by its President, Academician M. V. Keldysh, visited the United Kingdom from 9 to 27 February 1965. Other members of the delegation were Academician N. N. Semenov, Vice-President, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society; Academician N. M. Sisakyan, Chief Scientific Secretary; Academician N. N. Bogolyubov, Academician-Secretary of the Department of Mathematics; Professor N. F. Krasnov, Dr V. A. Filippov and Mr V. S. Vereshchetin, with Mr S. A.Sokolov and Dr N. A. Plate as interpreters. This visit was to enable Academician Keldysh and his colleagues to meet British scientists and see something of the work being done in universities and institutes in the United Kingdom, and to discuss the working of the Royal Society/U. S. S. R. Academy of Sciences agreement on scientific exchanges which had been in operation since 1956. An initial meeting to greet the delegation took place in the Society’s rooms on 10 February

Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom Report of the Council for 1963–64

1964 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 807-836
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Research

The Council have to report with regret the deaths of Captain V. Lord, a member of the Association's staff for 28 years and well known to many workers at the laboratory as skipper of S.S. ‘Salpa’; and of Cdr. C. A. Hoodless, D.S.C., R.N.R. who was Master of R.V. ‘Sabella’ from 1948 to 1953 when he was appointed Master of the Association's new research vessel ‘Sarsia’. Cdr. Hoodless was an able and skilful seaman and did much for marine science. His burial took place at sea from R.V. ‘Sarsia’ on 16 March 1964.The Council record with great pleasure the award of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine to Prof. A. L. Hodgkin, F.R.S., and Prof. A. F. Huxley, F.R.S. Both have been visiting research workers at the Plymouth laboratory and Prof. Hodgkin has served many times on the Council of the Association.The Council and OfficersDuring the year Major E. G. Christie-Miller resigned from his position as a Representative Governor on the Council of the Association since 1941. Major Christie-Miller gave devoted service to the Association as Honorary Treasurer from 1941 to 1956, and had been a Vice-President since 1951.Col. Sir John Carew Pole, Bt., D.S.O., T.D., has been nominated by the Fishmongers' Company in his place.Four ordinary meetings of the Council were held during the year, two in the rooms of the Royal Society, one in the rooms of the Linnean Society and one at Plymouth. At these the average attendance was seventeen.

Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Report of the Council for 1955–56

1956 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 647-669 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Deep Appreciation ◽  
The Many

The Council have great pleasure in reporting that Prof. A. V. Hill, C.H., O.B.E., F.R.S., was elected President of the Association in June in place of Prof. Sir James Gray, Kt., C.B.E., M.C., F.R.S., who had served for the preceding ten years.The Council wish to record their deep appreciation of the many services rendered to the Association by Sir James Gray during his long term of office as President, and are glad to report that he will continue to serve on the Council as Governor representing the Royal Society. Sir James Gray has been elected a Vice-President of the Association.

Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Report of the Council for 1950–51

1951 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 397-417
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Vice President ◽  
British Association ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Zoological Society ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Scientific Staff

The Council has to record with deep regret the deaths of the following former members of Council: Mr H. G. Maurice, C.B., who had represented the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Zoological Society, and was a Vice-President; Prof. H. Gordon Jackson who had represented the British Association for the Advancement of Science; Dr R. S. Clark, a former member of the Scientific Staff of the Plymouth laboratory; and Sir Sidney F. Harmer, F.R.S., a member of Council since 1895, who had represented the Royal Society, and was a Vice-President; also Mr R. Hansford Worth and Mr Arthur W. W. Brown, Founders of the Association, the latter having been the last survivor of the original members.

Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Report of the Council for 1975–6

1976 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 1067-1116 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Honorary Member ◽  
Council Member ◽  
Direct Service ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The University

The Council reports with deep regret the death of Sir James Gray, C.B.E., M.C., Sc.D., F.R.S. Sir James had been a member of the Association since 1912. He first became a Council Member in 1920 and represented the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1945 and the Royal Society from 1955 to 1969. He was President from 1945 to 1955 and was elected a Vice-President in 1955 and an Honorary Member in 1965. In addition to this sustained direct service to the Association, he will be remembered with gratitude for his very great contributions to British marine science, first as a member and, from 1939 to 1956, as Chairman, of the Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research to the Development Commission.

III. On the figure, dimensions, and mean specific gravity of the Earth, as derived from the ordnance trigonometrical survey of Great Britain and Ireland

1857 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 111-116 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Government

The Trigonometrical Survey of the United Kingdom commenced in the year 1784, under the immediate auspices of the Royal Society; the first base was traced by General Roy on the 16th of April of that year, on Hounslow Heath, in presence of Sir Joseph Banks, then President of the Society, and some of its most distinguished Fellows. The principal object which the Government had then in view, was the connexion of the Observatories of Paris and Greenwich by means of a triangulation, for the purpose of determining the difference of longitude between the two observatories.

Otto Meyerhof, 1884 - 1951

1954 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-200 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Artistic Development ◽  
School Life ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Long Period ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Foreign Member

Otto Meyerhof was born on 12 April 1884 in Berlin and died in Philadelphia on 6 October 1951 at the age of 67; he was the son of Felix Meyerhof, who was born in 1849 at Hildesheim, and Bettina Meyerhof, nee May, born in 1862 in Hamburg; both his father and grandfather had been in business. An elder sister and two younger brothers died long before him. In 1923 he shared the Nobel prize for Physiology (for 1922) with A. V. Hill. He received an Hon. D.C.L. in 1926 from the University of Edinburgh, was a Foreign Member (1937) of the Royal Society of London, an Hon. Member of the Harvey Society and of Sigma XI. In 1944 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. Otto Meyerhof went through his school life up to the age of 14 without delay, but there is no record that he was then brilliant. When he was 16 he developed some kidney trouble, which caused a long period of rest in bed. This period of seclusion seems to have been responsible for a great mental and artistic development. Reading constantly he matured perceptibly, and in the autumn of 1900 was sent to Egypt on the doctor’s advice for recuperation.

Refugee Academics from Chile: WUS‐SPSL Collaboration

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Phillips
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Indirect Benefits ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Direct And Indirect Benefits ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter describes the author's contacts with the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL) in the 1970s when, as the Secretary of the World University of Students (WUS), he worked closely with Esther Simpson and the SPSL in finding support in the universities for the refugees from Pinochet's Chile. Scholarship and bursary programmes were established for Chilean academics and students, which had many direct and indirect benefits for Chilean and later other refugees coming to the United Kingdom. The relationship that had begun between WUS and SPSL through the links with Esther Simpson and Lord Ashby, then Chairman of SPSL and also Vice-President of WUS, was strengthened through the collaborative work undertaken by the two organizations. Mutual trust and community of purpose led in due course to a compact between the SPSL and WUS, which assured the continuation of the SPSL as an independent body.

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