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THE annual meeting of the members of the Royal Institution was held on Friday, May 1. In the unavoidable absence of the president, Lord Eustace Percy, the chair was taken by the treasurer, Sir Robert Robertson. The Committee of Visitors, in a preface to its annual report, which was presented at the meeting, referred to the loss the Institution had sustained by the lamented death of its patron, His Majesty King George V. At a recent general monthly meeting it was announced that His Majesty King Edward VIII had been graciously pleased to grant his patronage to the Institution. The Visitors' Report referred to the increased attendance at the lectures of late. The recent course of Christmas Juvenile Lectures, given by Dr. Kenneth Mees on Photography, had an average audience of 515, and a Friday Evening Discourse given by Sir James Jeans on November 29 had an attendance of 640, the largest at the Institution for many years. The Dewar research fellowship, set up under the will of the late Lady Dewar, has been filled by the appointment of Mr. A. B. Ubbelohde, lately senior scholar of Christ Church, Oxford, as the first Dewar fellow. Mr. Ubbelohde has begun investigations on the changes in the palladium lattice caused by the presence of hydrogen, as measured by X-rays, and on the latent heat of sublimation of chain compounds.
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Royal Institution: Annual Meeting. Nature 137, 773–774 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137773e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137773e0