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ANNUAL REPORT XXXIX Research Unit attended the Gordon Research Conference at New Harrington and the Johns Hopkins symposium on the chemical basis of heredity during June Members of the laboratory engaged on biophysical research have contributed to the following conferences during the session the symposium of the International Union of Crystallography Madrid April 1956 the International Physiology Congress at Brussels July 1956 the Council for International Organisation of Medical Sciences Symposium on Connective Tissues in London July 1956 the meeting of the Cytochemistry Commission in Stockholm September 1956 the conference of the Electron Microscopy Group of the Institute of Physics in Stockholm September 1956 the Biochemical Society conference in Cambridge June 1956 the Society for Experimental Biology meeting in London January 1956 Professor Price gave his inaugural lecture in King's College on February 20th on Spectroscopy in Science and Technology He presented paper at the conference on Chemical Aeronomy at Harvard University in June 1956 Mr Wilkinson was invited to attend the Gordon Conference of the American Chemical Society in New Hampshire and to spend month in the Department of Chemistry at Harvard University Dr Champion and Mr Taylor presented papers at the diamond conference in Cambridge Dr Chapman was the guest of the Elektrophysik Institut der Technischen Hochschule at Miinchen in October 1955 when he read paper at symposium on the propagation of very-low-frequency radio waves He also presented paper at the international conference held in Paris under the auspices of the French National Committee of the International Scientific Radio Union Dr MacKay presented paper at the international conference on Thinking at Cambridge in September 1955 He also took part in symposium on Cerebral Activity at the 1955 Annual Meeting of the British Association Dr Bergman and Mr Μ Fisher presented papers at the international conference on Analogue Computation in Brussels in September 1955 department of zoology Number of Students First Year Medical 54 Ancillary Zoology Ancillary Biology 27 Sc Special 31 Postgraduate 22 Total 141