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THE annual general meeting of the Institute of Physics was held on Tuesday, May 19. After election of the officers and completion of the panel of the Board, it was announced that the following would take office on October 1, 1936: President, Prof. A. Fowler; Vice-President, Mr. F. Twyman; Honorary Treasurer, Major C. E. S. Phillips; Honorary Secretary, Prof. J. A. Crowther; New Members of the Board, Colonel K. W. E. Edgcumbe and Prof. R. Whiddington. The annual Report for the year 1935 which was adopted at the meeting shows that membership has continued to increase and that the high standard required for corporate membership has been maintained. The total membership at the end of the year was 822. The first Industrial Physics Conference to be held in Great Britain took place in Manchester in March 1935, and the attendance was nearly 550. The subject of the Conference was “Vacuum Devices in Research and Industry”, and an exhibition of instruments, apparatus and books cognate to the subject was arranged and was open to the public. Some 3,500 people visited the exhibition. A Midland Local Section was inaugurated in November, the towns covered being Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham and Rugby. The Report shows that the scheme for the training and certificating of laboratory assistants has developed satisfactorily and 21 certificates were issued during the year. The Institute's services in placing employers in touch with physicists seeking permanent posts and with consultants were in constant demand throughout the year. The circulation of the Journal of Scientific Instruments increased during the year, both on account of the commencement of its distribution to ‘associates' without extra payment and on account of sales to non-members.
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Institute of Physics. Nature 137, 861 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137861a0
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