25 MARCH 1949, Page 5

"Trin. Coll., Cam.," otherwise anonymous, sends me a cutting drawing

attention not merely to the extraordinary fecundity of that royal and religious foundation in Fellows of the Royal Society, but to the hereditary element in the achievement. One of the new F.R.S. is Professor J. M. Whittaker, educated at Trin. Coll., Cam.; son of Sir E. T. Whittaker, educated at Trin. Coll., Cam. Other present Trinity F.R.S. whose fathers achieved the same distinction are Sir George Darwin, Sir Lawrence Bragg and Sir George Thomson (son of J. J.). I doubt if this record could be paralleled.

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