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In 1985 the Bragg Lecture Fund Committee considered whether they should organize a memorial lecture for Kathleen Lonsdale. They decided it would be inappropriate for them to do it; instead they recommended that the British Crystallographic Association approach the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) about a possible annual Lonsdale Lecture, at which young people would hear about crystallography. These were held for a few years, but attracted a very small audience. The BCA Council therefore decided to move the Lonsdale lecture to take place during the BCA Annual Meeting.

List of Lonsdale Lecture

The September 1986 issue of Crystallography News page 5 reported that the BCA Council had decided to inaugurate a series of annual lectures to commemmorate the work of the late Dame Kathleen Lonsdale. The December 1987 issue on page 7 records that the 1st Lonsdale lecture was given by our BCA President David Blow.

• 1999 T. Richard Welberry - Glasgow IUCr XVIII
              Diffuse X-ray Scattering
• 1997 Andrew Lang - Leeds BCA Spring meeting
              X-rays and Diamonds
• 1995 ?
• 1993 Judith Milledge - Keele BAAS meeting
• 1992 Peter Murray-Rust - Southampton BAAS meeting
              Molecules and Disease
• 1991 Louise Johnson - Plymouth BAAS meeting August 29th
              Designer Drugs
• 1990 Alan MacKay - Swansea BAAS meeting August 22nd
              What is a Crystal?
• 1989 ?
• 1988 Michael Hart - Oxford BAAS meeting Sept 5th
              Synchrotron Radiation throws Light on a Microscopic World
• 1987 David Blow - Belfast BAAS meeting August 27th
              Enzyme Engineering

Can anyone help fill in the gaps in the dates, places, lecturers, topics of any of these lectures? Any further information will be gratefuly received by the BCA Webmaster.