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THE first soirée of the Royal Society, to which gentlemen, only are invited, is fixed for Wednesday, May 11. ON Saturday last (April 2) the Council of University College, oLondon, elected Prof. H. L. Callendar, F.R.S., to the Quain Professorship of Physics, about to become vacant by the resignation of Prof. G. Carey Foster, who in a few months will have held his Professorship in University College for thirty- three years. Prof. Callendar, who has been Professor of Physics in McGill College, Montreal, will enter upon his duties in London in October next.

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Notes. Nature 57, 542–546 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057542b0

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