ROYAL SOCIETY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19801, 17 May 1934, Page 10

ROYAL SOCIETY

GOVERNOR - GENERAL’S MESSAGE HAMILTON AWARD By TelegraDh—Press Association WELLINGTON. May 16. Being unable to be present at a meeting cf the Council of the Royal Society, his Excellency Lord Bledisloe has sent a message of greeting and congratulation. He says that he is disappointed that public engagements in the Auckland district prevent his attending the inaugural meeting of the Council of the Royal Society, hitherto called the New Zealand Institute, of which he was privileged to be honorary patron. He mentioned that this is the sixtyseventh year of the society’s useful existence and in this year “it becomes revitalised under a title more befitting its status and record of worthy achievement.” He says that if the application of science to human industrial operations has created a surplus of productive wealth with resulting human impoverishment, the fault lies, not with the scientist but with economists, financiers, industrialists and, above all. the statesmen of the world. He exprrsses a hope that under its new appellation the society will not only augment its already high prestige, but enjoy to an ever increasing extent the confidence and respect of the community at large. The Council passed resolutions relative to the deaths of Mr G. M. Thomson and Professor D. M. Y. Sommerville. It was resolved that the title of Fellows in future be F.R.S.N.Z. All Fellows of the Institute are entitled to use these letters. The following were elected honorarv members of the society:—Dr. E. C. Andrews, Dr. P. Buck, Professor A. H. Con.pton and Professor W. J. Gatenby. Mr L. C. King was announced as the winner of the Hamilton award for his geological work. No allocation was made of the Hector award. Thanks were extended to the Go-vernor-General for his message.