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Annual Report of the Delegacy xliii Dr Silk read paper to the Herodotean Society in Cambridge on 'Metaphor pustules and Liddell and Scott' The King's College Classical Society gave three well-attended performances of the Frogs of Aristophanes in Greek DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Number of Students Subsidiary 24 Honours 101 Postgraduate 54 Departmental Notes Professor Kane acted as external examiner for the University of Liverpool Professor Sharrock attended the second Nichol Smith seminar in eighteenth-century studies in Canberra in August 1970 where he introduced discussion on 'Satire' He remained for the third term at the Australian National University conducting seminars in the depart- ments of English and History in the School of General Studies He also lectured at the Universities of Sydney New South Wales Newcastle Melbourne Monash and at University College Wollongong On his return he lectured at the British Council Centres at Bangkok and Beirut and at the American University of Beirut He also lectured on Words- worth at the Rydal Mount Summer School on Donne to the English Association and on Hemingway and Updike in University inter- collegiate lecture series He talked to university entrants at Netherhall House and continued to act as external examiner for Southampton University Mr Yarker lectured on 'The background of Romanticism' to the Department of English at the North Western Polytechnic Mr Ε Mottram was Visiting Professor at Kent State Univer- sity Kent Ohio from September 1970 to March 1971 He lectured for the Poetry Society's seminars in American poetry at Essex University and at Keele University He organised and took part in the 'Poetry Information' series at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London May-June 1971 series of six sessions devoted to contemporary American poetry Mrs Leonee Ormond lectured on the 'History of the Sunflower' at the Victoria and Albert Museum She also lectured on 'The Arthurian