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IN addition to the pictures at the Royal Academy mentioned by Dr. Vaughan Cornish in his article elsewhere in this issue, scientific workers will be interested in the following portraits: Prof. S. Alexander, honorary professor of philosophy in the University of Manchester, charcoal, by Francis Dodd (1212); Sir Richard Glazebrook, formerly director of the National Physical Laboratory, by Edward I. Halliday (390); Dr. George Francis Hill, director and principal librarian of the British Museum, bronze medallion by Frank Bowcher (1650); Prof. J. G. Lawn, mining engineer, director of and consulting engineer in England to the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Co., Ltd., bronze bust by Maggie Mitchell (1736); Dr. Eleanor Lodge, formerly principal of Westfield College, London, by Gerald F. Kelly (91); Sir Murdoch Macdonald, president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, bronze bust by Gladys Barren (1725); Lord Melchett, director of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., by Glyn Philpot (274); Dr. Alexander Scott, director of scientific research at the British Museum, head by Sir W. Reynolds-Stephens (1638); the late Sir William Smith, founder of the Royal Institute of Public Health, bust by Charles L. Hartwell (1602); and Sir J. J. Thomson, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, chalk, by W. T. Monnington (1180). Among the other exhibits are a tempera of the foundations of the new Geological Museum, South Kensington, by Laurence Wheatley (881); while the architectural drawings and models section includes the library of the same Museum, by John H. Markham (1405), proposed additions to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, by Stanley Hall, and Easton and Robertson (1400), the completion of wings to Gower Street of University College, London, by Richardson and Gill (1512); and an etching and dry point of Battersea Power Station, by H. R. Myerscough-Walker (1257).
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Portraits at the Royal Academy. Nature 131, 646 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131646b0
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