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XXXV111 ANNUAL REPORT DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS Number of Students Sc General 81 Sc Ancillary 128 Honours Sc Special 65 Sc Engineering 190 Postgraduate 19 Total 488 First Degrees Sc Special lst Class Honours 2nd Class Honours Upper Division 2nd Class Honours Lower Division 3rd Class Honours Higher Degrees Ph Laird Some problems in astronomical magneto- hydrodynamics י Ph Laxton Near-rings with descending chain condition Departmental Notes Professor Semple paid general visit in the Easter vacation on behalf of the University of London to the three University Colleges at Makerere Uganda Nairobi Kenya and Salisbury Southern Rhodesia and he gave two lectures to students and one to the Faculty of Science at Salisbury He also lectured at University College Aberystwyth on the life and work of Hermann Schubert and he contributed to the dis- cussion on the Sc General Degree as one of the representatives of London University at the Home Universities Conference Professor Bondi gave lectures on topics in Relativity and Cosmo- logy to the Southampton branch of the Mathematical Association and the Physical Society of Southampton University the branch of the British Association at Guildford Putney High School the Dienes Society Birkbeck College St Lawrence College Ramsgate the Northampton Technical College Physical Society University College Aberystwyth University College of the West Indies and the Inter- national Seminar of the Italian Physical Society Dr Scott gave lectures to the Mathematical Societies of West- field College and Southampton University He also gave special course of postgraduate lectures An Introduction to Complex Kahler Manifolds at King's College in the Lent term Dr Frohlich gave lectures to the London University Algebra Seminar on Invariants of Algebras to the London University