ROYAL SOCIETY
VALUABLE REBEARCH MEDALS AWARDED CBy Telegraoh.—Press Association) WELLINGTON. Thursday. The annual meeting of the council of the Royal Society is being held today. In hfs presidential address. Professor W. F. Evans spoke of the work being done in research and the publication of results. During the last twelve months Government grants had amounted to £18.*50. and nearly £17.000 had been spent on publication. He raised the question whether the time had not come for the society to confine itself to science, leaving the literary and artistic publications to a more natural resting placr. A posthumous award of the Hector medal was made to the late "Bishop Herbert W. Williams, and the Hutton medal was awarded to Dr. David Miller, of the Cawthron Institute. Dr. Carl Skottesberg, of Sweden, was elected an honorary member. Dr. Skottesberg will visit New Zealand later this year. Dr. F. J. Turner f Otago) and Mr W. Donovan Dominion Analyst) were elected Fellows.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20509, 27 May 1938, Page 12
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