THE following have been elected honorary fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: British: Sir Thomas Lewis, physician-in-charge of the Department of Clinical Research, University College Hospital, London ; Prof. G. I. Taylor, Yarrow research professor of the Royal Society, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Foreign: Prof. F. Enriques, professor of mathematics, Royal University, Rome ; Dr. D. H. Russell, chairman of the Department of Astronomy and director of the Observatory, Princeton University, U.S.A. ; and Karl Freiherr von Tubeuf, professor of botany, University of Munich. The joint committee of representatives of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Physical Society and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society has awarded the Bruce Memorial Prize (1938) to Mr. Alexander R. Glen for his work in Spitsbergen, including survey in New Friesland and the completion of the map of North East Land. The Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh has awarded the David Anderson-Berry Prize (1938) to Miss Mary A. C. Cowell, of the Holt Radium Institute, Manchester, for her essay entitled "An Investigation into some of the Factors affecting the Response of Human Skin and Human Skin Tumours to Radiation". The portrait of the president of the Society, Sir D'Arcy Thompson, by Mr. David S. Ewart, was presented by Prof. F. A. E. Crew, on behalf of the subscribers, at the meeting held on July 4.
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