Calendar: 1971-1972 Page 443

lxviii Annual Report of the Delegacy 1970 After few initial handicaps it soon became accustomed to its new surroundings and its teaching programme went ahead almost without interruption The Faculty is most grateful to all who helped make this move from 34 Surrey Street possible including the College the University various charitable trusts and number of individual well-wishers The Faculty is now able to open its doors more widely to students from its sister faculties within the College who wish to study music as subsidiary subject and also to Mus students from Goldsmiths' College the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music Trinity College of Music and from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama The Faculty received further very generous contributions to the William Byrd Fund Such fund can help in many ways and it is the hope of the Faculty that the Fund will continue and that in future years former students of the Faculty may themselves wish to contribute to it The build-up of instruments books music and gramophone records for the Working Collection has not been as great as the Faculty would like in general because of ever-increasing costs The Faculty was able however to secure at very reasonable cost substantial addition to its collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century editions of books and music Since the Faculty moved to 152 153 Strand it has increased its holding of gramophone equipment and now owns commercial record cleaner and an overhead projector FACULTY OF NATURAL SCIENCE department of biophysics Professor Sir John Randall the founder of the Biophysics department at King's College and the first Professor of Biophysics resigned in September 1970 and moved to the University of Edinburgh where he will continue his research on the morphogenesis of cilia An appreciation as entered in the Minutes of the Delegacy is on xxii Sir John was already distinguished scientist when he came to the College During the war he and Dr Η Boot had discovered the cavity magnetron He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1946 and knighted in 1962 for services to science Sir John was founder of the British Biophysical Society and its first chairman He also helped found the International Union of Pure and Applied Bio-