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AT the annual meeting of the Australian National Research Council held in Sydney in August, it was determined to make a special effort to secure further financial support for the chair of anthropology which was established in the University of Sydney some time ago through the activity of the Council. The existence of the chair is threatened by recent reductions in government grants. In recognition of the work of its first two presidents, Sir. T. W. Edgeworth David and Sir David Orme Masson, the Council has established two lectureships to be awarded alternately at two year intervals, the David lectureship, commencing in 1933, to be devoted to geology or biology, the Masson lectureship, commencing in 1935, to physics or chemistry. A bronze medal in honour of Sir Thomas Ranken Lyle, the retiring president, is to be struck and it will be awarded not more frequently than every second year to such Australian worker in mathematics and physics as may appear to the Council to be worthy of the honour. The incoming officers are: President, Sir George A. Julius; Vice-Presidents, Sir William Mitchell, Dr. A. C. D. Rivett, Prof. N. T. M. Wils-more, Prof. H. C. Richards; Secretary, Mr. A. J. Gibson; Treasurer, Dr. H. G. Chapman; Executive Committee, Sir Douglas Mawson, Profs. Agar, Watt, Osborn and Goddard, Drs. Waterhouse and Dickson, and Messrs. Andrews, Gepp and Wainwright.
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Australian National Research Council. Nature 130, 573 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130573a0
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