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ON May 20–22 the Royal Society of Canada met at McGill University, Montreal. Prof. A. S. Eve gave his presidential address on the evening of May 20, his subject being “The Universe as a Whole”. He dealt successively, and from the broadest point of view, with the macrocosm, space, the microcosm, atoms and electrons, the age of the universe, time, life and the origin of life, and domains of energy, and stressed the divergence of existing views on may important problems, and the number of such problems still to be solved. At the same session he presented the three gold medals of the Society. The Flavelle medal was awarded to Dr. A. B. Macallum, emeritus professor of biochemistry at McGill University, for his pioneer researches in micro-biochemistry, the Lome Pierce medal for outstanding contributions to literature to Sir Andrew McPhail, professor of the history of medicine at McGill University, and the Tyrrell medal to Dr. Adam Shortt, of Ottawa. At the final session of the meeting the Hon. Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to the United States, gave the popular lecture on “Art and Nationality in Canada”.
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The Royal Society of Canada.: Annual Meeting in Montreal. Nature 126, 170–172 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126170a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/126170a0