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THE anniversary meeting of the Royal Society was held on Nov. 30, and in his presidential address Sir Ernest Rutherford referred to the Society's loss by death during the past year of two foreign members, thirteen fellows, and two fellows who were elected under Statute 12, which provides for the election of persons who have rendered conspicuous service to science, or whose election would be of signal benefit to the Society. He also reviewed the work of the three Yarrow and two Foulerton professors who have been appointed since 1923, and announced that the Council has decided to fill the Foulerton chair vacant through the death of Prof. E. H. Starling. Dr. E. D. Adrian, lecturer in physiology in the University of Cambridge, has accordingly been appointed. With the aid of apparatus using electrical amplification, Dr. Adrian has been engaged in recording and analysing the minute changes transmitted, from an excited peripheral sense-organ, along the conducting system of the nerves-changes which, on arrival at a nerve-centre in the brain of a conscious being, would result in one or another form of sensation.
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Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Society. Nature 122, 904–905 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122904a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122904a0