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ARRANGEMENTS are being made by a committee convened by the Royal Society to celebrate on June 26 the centenary of Lord Kelvin's birth. The committee is composed as follows: Sir Richard Glaze-brook (chairman), Prof. F. O. Bower (Royal Society of Edinburgh), Mr. W. R. Cooper (Physical Society), Sir John Dewrance (Institution of Mechanical Engineers), Mr. D. N. Dunlop (hon. secretary), Mr. F. Gill (Institution of Electrical Engineers), Sir Donald MacAlister (Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow), Sir Charles Morgan (Institution of Civil Engineers), The Duke of Northumberland (Institution of Naval Architects), Dr. E. C. Pearce (Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge), Dr. Alexander Russell (Institution of Electrical Engineers), Mr. F. E. Smith (Royal Society). A large number of Dominion, American and foreign men of science and engineers will be attending conferences at the British Empire Exhibition at that time, and July 10 and n have been selected as convenient dates for the Kelvin centenary celebrations. These will include a meeting for the receipt of addresses from delegates, at which Sir J. J. Thomson will deliver a memorial oration, and a dinner at which the Rt. Hon. Earl-Balfour has promised to preside. There will also be an exhibition of Kelvin apparatus, and probably a memorial volume will be prepared containing the addresses and speeches delivered, with some account of the apparatus exhibited. It is hoped that the president and council of the Royal Society will receive the delegates during the celebrations at the rooms of the society in Burlington House.
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Current Topics and Events. Nature 113, 170–173 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113170a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/113170a0