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IN a supplement to the Engineer of November 20, there were reproduced photographs of four very striking water-colour drawings depicting war-time work in three departments of Messrs. Hadfields Ltd., of Sheffield. The artist, Mr. Herbert J. Finn, in these drawings, has succeeded in conveying in a remarkable manner the sense of intense activity and vibrant energy of the giant furnaces and myriads of whirling belts of an engineering shop, which may come to be regarded as characteristic of this machine age. Equally vivid, but of totally different character, is Mr. Finn's water colour “Oxford from the Sheldonian Theatre”, a pictorial representation of Oxford's spires and domesa vista breathing the peace and quietude of medieval England. Sir Robert Hadfield has acquired this picture and has presented it to Harvard University in connexion with the occasion of its tercentenary celebrations. Harvard's leading metallurgist, Prof. Albert Sauveur, himself an old friend of Sir Robert, is well known in British engineering circles, for he was the recipient in 1924 of the Bessemer Gold Medal of the Iron and Steel Institute; on the other hand, Sir Robert is probably equally well known on the west of the Atlantic, for he is a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences, he received the John Fritz Gold Medal of the United Engineering Societies of the United States in 1921 and the Elliott-Cresson Gold Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1901. Sir Robert's gift is not only a mark of his own respect and admiration for a great centre of learning in the United States, but also a further link between the universities of Great Britain and the New World, helping to hold them together in the ever-intensifying quest for knowledge.
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Sir Robert Hadfield's Gift to Harvard. Nature 138, 1005 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381005b0
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