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THE Sir Charles Parsons Memorial Executive Committee, composed of the presidents of thirteen scientific and technical societies, with the Engineer-in-Chief of the Fleet, and presided over by Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, has just issued a state ment of its aims and an appeal for subscriptions. Observing that the name of Parsons will ever be remembered with those of Newcomen, Watt, Trevi-thick and Stephenson, and that his fame was due not only to his work in marine and electrical engineer ing, but also to his investigations in various branches of physics, the statement says that it has been decided that the memorial shall take several forms. It is proposed, first, to place a memorial to him in Westminster Abbey; secondly, to found an annual lecture to be given by a distinguished man of any nationality, who will be chosen in turn by the various scientific and technical societies; and thirdly, it is proposed to arrange with the governors of London House that the library in that House shall be called the “Parsons Research Library”. A bronze medal will be established in connexion with the annual lecture and a bust of Sir Charles Parsons will be placed in the library. London House was founded in 1931 as a hall of residence for Dominion and Colonial men students of white parentage, from the Empire overseas. The property, now under development, covers an area of about 1 acres in the Bloomsbury district close to the University of London, and the proposed library will contain scientific and technical works. To carry out the whole scheme, it has been estimated that a sum of at least £12,000 is required. Copies of the appeal are being sent to members of the societies concerned, and the Executive Committee suggests that in general the maximum subscription should be two guineas. Donations should be sent to the Royal Society, Burlington House, W.I, and cheques made payable to the “Sir Charles Parsons Memorial Fund”.
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Sir Charles Parsons Memorial. Nature 133, 488 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133488b0
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