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THE following have been elected officers of the Royal Astronomical Society: President: Prof. H. H. Plaskett, Savilian professor of astronomy, University of Oxford. Vice-Presidents: the Rev. M. Davidson; Dr. H. R. Hulme, scientific adviser to the Air Ministry; Prof. E. A. Milne, Rouse Ball professor of mathematics, University of Oxford; Mr. J. H. Reynolds. Treasurer: Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal. Secretaries: Prof. W. H. McCrea, professor of mathematics in the University of London (Royal Holloway College); Mr. D. H. Sadler, superintendent of the Nautical Almanac. Foreign Secretary: Prof. F. J. M. Stratton, professor of astrophysics, University of Cambridge. Council: Miss M. G. Adam, chief assistant (astronomy), University Observatory, Oxford; Mr. B. C. Browne, lecturer in geodesy, University of Cambridge; Dr. H. A. Brack, John Couch Adams astronomer, University of Cambridge; Mr. D. L. Edwards, director of the Norman Lockyer Observatory, Sidmouth; Dr. M. A. Ellison; Mr. F. J. Hargreaves; Dr. A. Hunter, assistant, Royal Observatory, Greenwich; Dr. E. M. Lindsay, director of the Armagh Observatory; Dr. E. H. Linfoot, lecturer in mathematics, University of Bristol; Mr. P. J. Melotte, assistant, Royal Observatory, Greenwich; Mr. F. J. Sellers; Dr. W. H. Steavenson.
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Royal Astronomical Society: Officers for 1946. Nature 157, 189 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157189c0
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