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c Annual Report of the Delegacy Departmental Notes Following the death of Professor Hanson who was Director of the Medical Research Council Muscle Biophysics Unit the Neurobiology Unit and the Muscle Biophysics Unit have been amal- gamated to form the Cell Biophysics Unit Professor Wilkins is the Honorary Director and Professor Boycott and Professor Taylor are Assistant Directors The nature of the research done in the new Unit is much the same as before amalgamation of the Units but more unified overall programme of research has been developed Dr Dover has been appointed Lecturer from September 1st 1974 in succession to Dr Fuller Dr Neidle has held temporary Lectureship in the 1973-74 session and will continue his association with the Department as research fellow Professor Boycott continued his work in Harvard and Santa Barbara during six-week visit to the He read paper at an EMBO conference on Quantitative Concepts in Neurobiology in Tubingen He was appointed to the Board of Management of the Royal Com- mission for 1851 Professor Taylor has taken part in EMBO meetings at Alpbach in Austria and Garda in Italy and lectured to the Belgian Biophysical Society in Louvain He has participated in conferences in California and the New York Academy of Sciences on Microtubules and has lectured at Princeton University the Boston Biomedical Institute Johns Hopkins University and to the New York State Anaestheiologists Dr Richards has been appointed Assistant Director of the Bio- physics laboratories He has lectured at the University of Athens on Electrophoretic Techniques and was visiting lecturer at the FEBS Summer School at Sofia Dr McClare addressed the CIBA Symposium in London on Energy Transduction in Biological Systems and lectured at Leeds and Bristol Universities Dr Cavalier-Smith made three-month visit to institutes in Europe to study ecological teaching Dr Offer attended an EMBO Workshop on the Crossbridge Cycle in Alpbach Austria and gave lectures at Leicester and Oxford Uni- versities Dr Lieb gave talk at the Biochemical Society York in January on Rejection Criteria and their application to facilitated diffusions in erythrocytes