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Annual Report of the Delegacy lxxvii protein assembly line' 'proteins in action' 'genes molecules and de- velopment' 'the cell and its genetic material' course on Soluble Compound Radiography organised by Dr Pelc and Mr Appleton under the auspices of the Royal Microscopical Society was held in the department from May ist to 6th and was attended by twenty people from six different nations Professor Hanson see Distinctions xxvii was invited to visit laboratories in the United States in December 1966 and gave an invited paper to meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences in Washington In January she lectured at the CIBA re- search laboratories at Horsham and opened discussion group on muscle at the Agricultural Institute of Eire in Dublin in March She visited laboratories in Japan took part in symposium on Con- tracrility and gave an invited paper to the seventh international Bio- chemistry Congress in Tokyo in August Professor Μ Wilkins chaired British Biophysical Society study group on 'Physical studies of basic proteins and their com- plexes with nucleic acids' at Portsmouth College of Technology in October Dr Elliott gave talk to the X-ray Analysis Group of the Institute of Physics at Oxford in April 'The use of toroidal mirrors for photo- graphing X-ray fibre diffraction patterns with high definition' and read paper at the symposium on Fibrous Proteins at Canberra Australia in August 'The X-ray diffraction pattern of paramyosin' He also gave an illustrated lecture in the department in November on 'Medieval stained glass' The X-ray-diffraction camera which Dr Elliott designed some time ago is now being manufactured by Hilger and Watts under licence from the College The camera was the subject of an article in World Medicine in December Dr Davies gave series of lectures on Optical Microscopy and its applications to Biology' in January at the Rockefeller University New York Dr Lowy lectured on 'Muscle and bacterial flagella' to the Univer- sities of East Anglia and Reading He also contributed papers on these topics to symposium on Fibrous Proteins in Canberra Australia in August and with Dr Spencer to symposium on Cell Mobility in Oxford in September Dr Gratzer worked for six weeks at the Children's Cancer Research Foundation Harvard Medical School Boston from the beginning of January