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20 Oct 1959: Mr. Trevor Fletcher “Mathematical Films” 3 Nov 1959: Mr. K. A. H. Gravett “Do-it-yourself” 17 Nov 1959: Mr. Wylie “Plastering” 1 Dec 1959: Dr. A. B. Tayler “The Dam Busters”

28 Apr 1959: Prof. Rosenbaum (Oregon) “Commutativity” 5 May 1959: Mr. R. E. Miles (Cambridge) “A peculiar invariance in probability theory” 12 May 1959: Prof. Emrys Thomas “Groups and Loops” 19 May 1959: Members’ Papers: John Crossley (St. John’s) “To Infinity and Back” Maureen Houghton (St. Hugh’s) “Treacle Music”Preceded by the AGM

23 Jan 1959: Dr. E. A. Maxwell (Cambridge) “To err is human” 10 Feb 1959: Mr. Hopkinson read Dr. Natanson’s paper on “Oil-Reservoir Engineering” 24 Feb 1959: Dr. J. T. Lewis “Non-linear Oscillations” or “Topology for Sanitary Engineers – a plea” 10 Mar 1959: Dr. M. G. Barratt “A Problem on Fur”

21 Oct 1958: Dr. G. Higman, FRS “Words within Words” or “Partial Well-order” 4 Nov 1958: Mr. J. S. de Wet “The Theory of Distributions” 18 Nov 1958: Prof. Plaskett “Solar Physics” 2 Dec 1958: Prof. D. H. Wilkinson “The Classification of Elementary Particles”

29 Apr 1958: Prof. Milnor “The Theory of Games” 6 May 1958: Dr. C. W. Kilmister (King’s College, London) “The Dimensionless Physical Constants” 13 May 1958: Dr. E. C. Cherry (Imperial College) “An Outline of Information Theory” 20 May 1958: Members’ Papers: Mr. Brown “Topology” Dr. Brush “Flexagons”Preceded by the AGM

28 Jan 1958: Dr. M. J. Stephen “The Faraday Effect and the Sputnik” 11 Feb 1958: Dr. L. Fox “The numerical solution of ordinary differential equations” 25 Feb 1958: Dr Blin-Stoyle “Uses and Abuses of Models in Physical Theory” 11 Mar 1958: Dr. L. Mirsky “Problems of Arithmetical Geometry”

22 Oct 1957: Dr. W. L. Ferrar “The Literature of Mathematics” 5 Nov 1957: Prof. J. H. C. Whitehead “The Ham Sandwich” 19 Nov 1957: Dr. J. Howlett “Academic and Applied Mathematics” 3 Dec 1957: Prof. W. E. Lamb “Spin”