Bulletin Number One 1985

Seminars • Exhibi t ion * Mr. J.L. Law, Senior Research Chemist, North Carolina Power Co., U.S.A., spoke on 'Chemical Aspects of Nuclear Electricity Generation'on 3rd December, 1984. The seminar was jointl y sponsored by the Hong Kong Chemical Society and the Department of Chemistry. * The Department of Geography presented the following lectures and seminar in December 1984: - a public lecture on ‘Current Situation of the Study, Research, Development and Utilization of Natural Resources in China' by Professor Lee Wenhua of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on 3rd December. —a public lecture on ‘Problems and Prospects for Environmental Impact Assessment ’， a seminar on ‘Aspects of the Residential Environment in Asian Cities' and a lecture on 'Urban Noise Problems' by Dr. Lex Brown, Lecturer of the School of Environmental Studies, Griffith University, Australia on 11th, 18th and 19th December respectively. * Professor Samuel Edward Finer, 1984 Distinguished Visiting Scholar of United College, delivered a series of three Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lectures on ‘The Theory of Military Intervention', which include the following topics: 1. Intervention (4th December) 2. Power (7th December) 3. Abdication (11th December) Professor Finer, an internationally renowned political scientist, was Chairman of th e Political Science Association of the United Kingdom between 1965 and 1969. He was appointed i n 1974 to the prestigious Gladstone Chair of Government and Public Administration at All Soul's College, Oxford, and was made Professor Emeritus after his retirement two years ago. * The Institute of Chinese Studies organized the following seminars: —‘Recent Archaeological Finds in Hubei' by Mr. Shu Zhimei, Deputy Curator of the Hubei Museum on 5th December, 1984. —‘Kang Yu-wei, the Reformer' by Mr. Tang Zhijun, Deputy Director of the Institute of Historical Research, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences on 10th January, 1985. * The Department of Chemistry organized the following seminars: —'NMR Spectroscopy and Other Experimental Methods for Determining the Structures of Bacterial Polysaccharides' by Professor G.G.S. Dutton of the Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Canada on 7th December, 1984. Professor Samuel Edward Finer, 1984 Distinguished Visiting Scholar of United College ACADEMIC/CULTURAL EVENTS 25