LORD RUTHERFORD
♦ ROYAL SOCIETY OF N.Z. PASSES RESOLUTION A resolution moved by the president of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Professor W. P. EVans, at a meeting held in Wellington recently, was as foll0“The Royal Society of New Zealand expresses its profound regret at the unexpected death of its most distinguished Fellow, Ernest, Lord Rutherford. 0.M.,. M.A., D.Sc., Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., F.RS.N.Z. , . , “The society feels that by his death the world of science has lost its most brilliant experimenter, one whose name will be inscribed on the short roll of those who, from time to time in the history of human endeavour, have been permitted to enter the more secret chambers of Nature and pass on the knowledge there gained to their less gifted fellows. “The society, with which Lord Rutherford was so long and so closely connected, recognises also that it has lost an honoured friend, and its members desire to assure his widow, Lady Rutherford, of their sincere sympathy.”
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22237, 30 October 1937, Page 16
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