Calendar: 1961-1962 Page 422

ANNUAL REPORT xii Ph Pain "Polar movement of growth substances in relation to geotropism Ph Ellis Enzymology of transamination Departmental Notes Research continues under the direction of Dr Sutcliffe on the mechanism of mineral salts absorption and its relationship to growth of cells in tissue culture The work was facilitated by the purchase of Unicam flame spectrophotometer through grant from the Royal Society study is also being made of phosphorous metabolism in plants with particular reference to the nucleic acids in relation to the problem of cell differentiation Dr Davies gave the following lectures Advances in plant biochemistry at the Royal Institute of Chemistry The origin of methyl groups in higher plants at the Christmas Conference of the Society for Experimental Biology Dr Μ Wilkins lectured as follows Plant clocks to the Durham Colleges Natural History Society The effect of light on plant rhythms at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology New York Studies of an endogenous rhythm in the rate of carbon dioxide output of excised leaves of Bryophyllum at the 1960 conference of the International Society for Biological Rhythm held at Siena DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY Number of Students First 20 Sc Ancillary lst Year 20 2nd Year 19 Sc General lst Year 11 2nd Year 13 3rd Year 11 Sc Special let Year 33 2nd Year 32 3rd Year 20 Chemical Engineering Postgraduate full-time Organic Chemistry 26 Inorganic and Physical Chemistry 15 Total 221