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MAY 1 was the day of the annual meeting at the Royal Institution, when the members received the report of their committee of visitors on the state of the Institution during the year 1934$ and when the election of officers took place in accordance with the time-honoured procedure. The three scrutineers were sent to watch the three balloting glasses during the half-hour that the ballot must remain open; at the end of the time they marched out to the private room appointed for the counting of the votes; and in due course they returned, to report to the meeting the names of the officers, managers and visitors elected for the year 1935-36. The president is to be the Right Hon. Lord Eustace Percy; the treasurer, Sir Robert Robertson; the secretary, Major Charles E. S. Phillips; new managers are Prof. E. N. da C. Andrade, Sir Frederick Berryman, Prof. A. Fowler, Sir Richard Paget, Prof. A. O. Rankine, Dr. G. C. Simpson, Mr. W. J. Tennant and Mr. James White-head. The visitors report testified to increased membership, to improved attendance at the lectures and to a year of varied activities in the Institution. The accounts show a financial position which cannot but be gratifying to the members and to their treasurer, Sir Robert Robertson, who has had charge of the finances since 1929, one of the most eventful and at times anxious periods in the Institution's history. The report of the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory records valuable progress during the year in the researches, largely on the structure of organic molecules, directed by Sir William Bragg. In the unavoidable absence of the president, Lord Eustace Percy, the meeting was conducted by the honorary secretary, Major Phillips; and it was remarkable for the felicitous terms of a speech in which the thanks of the members were given to the president for his services during the past year by Sir James Crichton-Browne, of whom the evidence of Who's Who, that he is now in his ninety-fifth year, is difficult to credit.
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Royal Institution: Annual Meeting. Nature 135, 784 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135784a0
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