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IN the course of the presidential address to the Royal Society, delivered as customary on St. Andrew's Day, Sir Henry Dale noted that Sir Henry Tizard, foreign secretary of the Society, has returned from a scientific mission to Australia, and that Prof. A. V. Hill, the senior secretary of the Society, has gone to India as a result of a request sent to the Society by the Government of India. Prof. Hill is to consult with that Government on scientific affairs, and in particular is to advise on scientific and industrial research in relation to measures of post-war reconstruction, and on the co-ordination of such plans in India with corresponding activities elsewhere. During his absence, Prof. E. J. Salisbury will take Prof. Hill's place as biological secretary of the Society. During his visit to India, Prof. Hill hopes to carry out a unique ceremony. It is part of the formal admission of fellows of the Society that they subscribe the obligation in the Charter Book ; of the six Indian fellows, only two have hitherto been able to do this. Prof. Hill has accordingly been provided with a sheet of suitable parchment on which the fellows' obligation is inscribed, and the four Indian fellows who have not yet signed the Charter Book will be formally admitted to the Society.
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Presidential Address to the Royal Society. Nature 152, 655–656 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152655c0
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