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Ixiv Annual Report of the Delegacy Professor McMinn's departure see Appointments but in the develop- ment of the museum as in so many other spheres of activity in the department Professor McMinn will be greatly missed Professor McMinn was the official delegate of the College at the ninth international congress of anatomists in Leningrad in August In June Dr Whur was an invited speaker at the international thyroid conference in Vienna and was also invited to speak at the inter- national symposium on Mucosubstances of the Royal Microscopical Society London in September Dr Μ Hobdell gave an invited lecture to the annual meeting of the British Society of Dental Radiology department of biochemistry Number of Students 246 49 Sc intercalated degree for medical students April 1969-June 1970 April 1970-June 1971 School of Biological Sciences 14 Ph 16 Departmental Notes Professor Arnstein contributed an invited paper on 'The structure and activity of polyribosomes and subparticles from reticulo- cytes' to the Biochemical Society Colloquium held in Leeds in January He also gave lecture at the EMBO workshop on Protein Biosynthesis in Animal Cells which was held in Nijmegen The Netherlands in July and research seminar in the Department of Cell Biology University of Glasgow Professor Arnstein was appointed External Examiner in Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin Dr Darbre was an invited lecturer at the international seminar on gas chromatography held in London in December 1969 He was also guest speaker at conference on 'Careers' organised by the Institute of Biology in January Dr Margot Kogut has joined the Microbiology Teaching Group Committee of the Society for General Microbiology and the Bio- chemistry Teaching Subcommittee of the Medical Research Section University Teaching Methods Research Unit at the Institute of