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Annual Report of the Delegacy lxxiii Departmental Notes Professor Μ Wilkins received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws Glasgow University He gave lectures at various British universities and talk on Social Responsibility in Science in the Rutherford Lecture Series at the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory at Chilton Didcot Professor Hanson lectured in Sicily in an international course on Muscle Biophysics provided by Italian Government Agencies for postgraduate students She was an invited speaker in the 37th Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology in the and in the 4th International Biophysics Congress in Moscow She attended the General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics as head delegate and she gave lecture in Louvain to the Belgian Biophysical Society Dr Offer and Dr Ε Rome were also invited speakers at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium Professor Β Boycott lectured in universities in Spain and Ger- many and made working tour of universities and research institutes in the He attended the annual general meeting of the Associa- tion for Research in Ophthalmology in Florida and meeting on the Development of the Visual System in Rochester Professor Taylor formerly Professor of Biophysics in the University of Chicago joined the Muscle Biophysics Unit in June 1972 The title of Professor of Biology has been conferred upon him by the University of London He is distinguished for his work in two fields of interest to his colleagues in the Biophysics Laboratories the kinetics of the energy-transducing process that causes muscular contraction and the structure and function of neurotubules and neuro- fibrillae in nerve cells Professor Taylor spent sabbatical leave in the Biophysics Laboratories in 1969-70 Dr Fuller lectured in summer school on Assemblies of Bio- macromolecules in Strunjan Yugoslavia He also took part in work- shop on Protein Crystallography in Alpbach Austria and was Chair- man of symposium on The Conformation of Biopolymers held in Dublin Dr Fuller gave general lectures at Lanchester College of Technology Hatfield College the Bromley Discussion Group and Project 84 The American edition of the proceedings of the meeting on The Social Impact of Modern Biology edited by Dr Fuller was published by Doubleday under the title 'The Biological Revolution