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THE fifth annual general meeting of the British Rheologists' Club was held at the Engineers' Club, Manchester, on October 5. Dr. G. W. Scott Blair, the retiring honorary secretary, reported on the activity of the Club during the year 1944–45, and stated that membership had reached the three hundred mark. The Club had held four general meetings, and two bulletins of information, abstracts, etc., had been issued. Close contact had been maintained with the Society of Rheology (United States), and contacts had begun with rheologists in the U.S.S.R., France and other countries. The Proceedings of the Oxford Conference were nearly ready and Would be published in book form. Prof. E. N. da C. Andrade was re-elected president for the ensuing year. Dr. E. W. J. Mardles of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hants, was elected secretary; a vote of thanks, was moved from the chair to Dr. Scott Blair, who had been secretary of the Club since its inception in 1940. The meeting was followed by a joint discussion with the Manchester Section of the Oil and Colour Chemists'. Association on the general rheological properties of suspensions.
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British Rheologists' Club. Nature 156, 745 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156745c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156745c0