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THE annual report of the Council of the Royal Society of Arts refers to the establishment of the distinction of Designer for Industry (D.I.) of the Royal Society of Arts as indicating the Society's continued efforts to raise the status of the British artist in industry. Other examples of its interest in this direction are the travelling bursary of £100 offered to art teachers, and the decision to revive on new lines the annual competition of industrial designs which was held from 1924 until 1933. It is hoped that the first of the new competitions will be held in 1938 for the textile industry, and that they will in due course be extended to other branches of industry. The Albert Medal of the Society for 1937 was awarded to Lord Nuffield "for services to industry, transport and medical science". Fifteen silver medals were awarded for papers read before the Society during the current session. Entries for the ordinary examinations of the Society in 1937 numbered 75,372, and the total number of papers applied for in all the examinations was 93,497. An important innovation under the Thomas Gray Memorial Trust was the decision to award a number of prizes to stimulate and assist the education of apprentices and deck boys. Prizes to the value of £100 were awarded during the year under the Trust for essays and inventions connected with the science and practice of navigation.
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The Royal Society of Arts. Nature 140, 1008 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1401008b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1401008b0