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AMONG the delegates present at the recent celebration of the centenary of the Geological Survey of Great Britain was the veteran geologist, Prof. A. P. Karpinsky, president of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Leningrad. Prof. Karpinsky is well known to British geologists, and was elected a foreign correspondent of the Geological Society of London so long ago as 1898. He became a foreign member of the Society in 1901 and received the Wollaston Medal in 1916. He is now in his ninetieth year, and has been a member of the Academy of Sciences in Leningrad for nearly fifty years, and its president for twenty years. The honorary members of this Academy include Sir F. G. Hopkins, Lord Rutherford, Sir Charles Sherrington and Sir Robert Hadfield. At a small luncheon given by Sir Robert Hadfield on July 10 in honour of Prof. Karpinsky, at which there were present, among others, Sir F. G. Hopkins, president of the Royal Society, Prof. W. W. Watts, president of the British Association, and Sir John Flett, director of the Geological Survey, Sir Robert recalled that Faraday was an honorary member of the Academy. He added: “As a metallurgist, I can speak with the highest approval of the splendid work of the two famous Russian scientists of the past, Demetri Tchernoff, who I believe was a member of the Academy, and Sergius Kern. From the research work of both these metallurgists I greatly benefited in my younger days.” After the luncheon, the guests had an opportunity of seeing some interesting exhibits brought together by Sir Robert Hadfield, including a model in modern rustless steel of the famous iron pillar at Delhi, Mr. F. J. Halnon's bronze group symbolising “A Legend of Metallurgy”, and objects illustrating results of investigations of specimens of steel made by Faraday at the Royal Institution between the years 1819 and 1824 and described in Sir Robert's book “Faraday and his Metallurgical Researches”.
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Prof. A. P. Karpinsky and the U.S.S.R. Academy. Nature 136, 96 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136096b0
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