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THE annual report for the year 1936 of the Institute of Physics presented at the annual general meeting held on May 26 shows that the total membership has continued to increase in a very satisfactory way. The membership at the end of the year was 902. An informal discussion on the training of industrial physicists was held on February 11, 1936, at which appointed representatives of nearly every university and college in Great Britain and Ireland, of firms employing physicists and of research associations and Government establishments were present. As a direct result of this discussion, a scheme was in augurated whereby registered students of the Institute are enabled to gain first-hand experience of industrial research and development work in physics during their vacations. The report records that in its first year this scheme proved most successful. The fifth conference of Australian physicists and astronomers was convened by the Australian Branch of the In stitute and was held in Sydney on May 25-28, 1936. A London and Home Counties Branch of the Institute was founded in November. The general improvement in industry is reflected by the report of a great increase in the activities of the appointments register and panel of consulting physicists maintained by the Institute. The following officers have been elected to take office on October 1: President, Mr. C. C. Paterson; Vice-President, Prof. W. Makower; Honorary Treasurer, Major C. E. S. Phillips; Hon orary Secretary, Prof. J. A. Crowther; New Members of the Board, Prof. J. Chadwick and Mr. D. C. Gall.
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Institute of Physics. Nature 139, 958 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139958c0
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