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Annual Report of the Delegacy lxix physics The founding of the School of Biological Sciences at King's College in 1963 was in large part due to Sir John's initiative and he was its Chairman until 1969 As member of the School the Biophysics Department received its first undergraduate students to read Biology in 1966 and soon began to teach undergraduates throughout the School including medical students Sir John was among the first to support the scheme now under discussion for merger of the medical schools of St Thomas's and Westminster with King's College in implementation of part of the Report of the Royal Commission on Medical Education 1965-68 He has profoundly influenced the post- war development of science in the College in the University and in the international scene Professor Μ Wilkins visited the United States and lectured at Yale Buffalo San Francisco and Boston He gave talk at the Harden Conference on X-ray diffraction studies of membranes and lipid bi- layers Professor Jean Hanson gave Royal Society BAYS lecture on 'How muscles contract' to an audience of sixth-formers in Glasgow and gave research colloquia at Birkbeck College and Edinburgh and Oxford Universities With Dr O'Brien and Miss Bennett she contributed to Royal Society discussion meeting on 'New developments in electron microscopy with special emphasis on their application in biology' Dr Fuller was elected to the Education Committee of the Inter- national Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics and also as Secretary to the Board of Studies in Biophysics and the Computer and Instrumen- tation Group of the Biochemical and Biophysical Societies He gave lectures on nucleic acid structure in Gottingen Wurzburg Heidelberg Paris and Leeds and as Darwin Lecturer of the British Association he lectured on molecular biology to sixth-formers in Keswick He read paper at the Biochemistry Society symposium at Warwick on transfer ribonucleic acid structure Dr Elliott gave paper at the Royal Society meeting on Electron Microscopy see above and seminar on the structure of paramyosin at the Department of Zoology Oxford University Dr Davies attended the fourth annual meeting of the Portu- guese Electron Microscopy Society on Study Visit Grant from the Royal Society European Programme Dr Gratzer participated in symposium on 'Biological molecules in their excited states' at Arden House New York and