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ANNUAL REPORT VII of organisation which he has displayed in the management of the Department of Physics and in the efficient direction of the Halley Stewart Laboratories and not least for his wholehearted loyalty to this College in the general life of which he has played major part It is with very special regret that the Delegacy have accepted his resignation and they wish him all success and happiness in the important work to which he has been called back by his old University of Cambridge There is little need to add to the comment made in last year's Report upon the gratifying but embarrassing recognition of the distinction and merit of members of the staff of King's College In the two years 1934-36 King's has supplied ten professors and one associate professor to other Universities while good number of the less senior members of the staff have earned well-merited promotion outside the College In the same period also four professors have retired under the age limit sudden and rapid change in personnel upon this scale inevitably raises difficulties even in College where robust and sound tradition assimilates almost as rapidly as it welcomes those newly drawn to its service The Delegacy are consequently grateful to the Senate for exceptionally extending for further year their claim upon the sagacious experience and wise counsel of Professor Atkins both as Professor of German and as Assistant Principal of the College Retirements The College has lost by retirement the services of several prominent members of the staff Professor Dale joined the staff as an Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics in 1895 he was appointed Lecturer in 1902 and Assistant Professor in 1903 For forty-one years he identified himself with the life of the College and many generations of students have reason to be grateful for his sound teaching and ready personal sympathy Professor Jolliffe was appointed to Chair of Mathematics in the College in 1924 he succeeded Professor White as Head of the Department of Mathematics in 1932 and he has held office as Dean of the Faculty of Science His comprehensive ability throughout the whole varied field of mathematical science has been source of admiration to his fellow-mathematicians An in- defatigable and brilliant teacher he enjoys in peculiar degree the affection of his former pupils Professor Edgar Prestage was appointed to the Camoens Chair of Portuguese Language and Literature in the College in 1923 During these thirteen years continuous series of publications on the result of his researches in Portuguese history and literature have made notable additions to our knowledge of field that has been but little explored in this country and the distinction of his fine and accurate scholarship has brought no small credit to the College The retirements of Dr Mabel Day Lecturer in English who was first appointed to the staff of the College in 1912 of Dr ViUasante Senior Lecturer in Spanish who was first appointed in 1913 and of