Bulletin Vol. 10 No. 5 Jan 1974

DONAT ION OF MICRO-FILE MACHINE The Mary Wood Foundation of U.S.A. has donated to the University Librar y a valuable Recordak Micro-File Machine (model MRD-2). It was formally presented o n 6th December, 1973 by Mr. Lewis P. Rutherfurd , trustee of the Foundation. The Recordak Micro-File Machine can record on 35 mm or 16 mm A HU microfile, newspapers, drawings, books, manuscripts, and larg e documents. Several projects can now be initiated in various subject areas for the efficient storage of data which are too bulky in their original format. PROFILES OF NEW PROFESSORS Prof. L.B. Thrower, Professor of Biology and Director of Marine Science Laboratory Prof. Thrower entered the University of Melbourne after active service during the Second World War and obtained the degrees o f B.Sc ., M . Sc. and Ph.D. From 1954 t o 57 he was Plant Pathologist in Papua-New Guinea. He then returned to the University of Melbourne as Lecturer in Botany, and was promoted t o Senior Lecturer in 1961. In 1965 he was appointed Professor of Botany at the University of Hong Kong, and subsequently served as Dean, Faculty of Science (1966-68) and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (1968-71). His early research and teaching was mainly on plant diseases, and particularl y the metabolism of diseased plants. Since coming to Hong Kong, Prof. Thrower has been developing courses on ecology appropriate to Hon g Kong, and extended his earlier interest to include the diseases of local economic plants. This developing interes t in ecology led to his appointment in 1967 as a member of the Provisional Council for the Use and Conservation of the Countryside, and he has served on the advisory committee which succeeded the Provisional Council. Prof. Thrower became Professor o f Biology at this University in September 1973 and acts concurrently as Director of th e Marine Science Laboratory. Prof. Richard J. Coughlin, Visiting Professor of Sociology Dr. Richard J. Coughlin, a sociologist with broad academic and social interests, has shifted his career several times. Originally a school teacher, during World War I I he began his studies of Fa r Eastern societies and languages and was for a time a research analyst on China and Japan. He entered the United States Foreign Service and served for two years as American Vice-Consul in Saigon and subsequently headed the Indochina Desk in the Research Division of the United States Department of State. He pursued postgraduate studies at Yale University and has served on the faculty of Yale, the Universit y of Toronto, York University in Toronto, the Universit y of Virginia and now this University. His academic career was interrupted when he served fo r two years with Asia Foundation in Hong Kong. As a sociologist, Prof. Coughlin has strong inclinations toward anthropological methods o f research, and in fact he presently holds an appointment in both disciplines at the University of Virginia. He is an East Asian and Southeast Asian specialist, having done field wor k in Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Korea, but he has become immersed in the study of aspects of American society, notabl y crime and delinquency and population. His research an d publications cover inter alia the overseas Chinese in Thailand and the Caribbean, urbanization an d population in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and Korea, criminal behaviour systems in th e United States and Hong Kong, birth contro l in Hong Kong, and prematurity among Negro wome n in the United States. 杜 華 敎 授 Prof. L.B. Thrower 高國麟敎授 Prof. Richard J. Coughlin — 4 —