Re Professor Mmaa's Lecture, introduced by BR: "You seem to know a great deal about termites. I went to a place in the centre of Australia were they were the only form of animal life, and there were no artifacts except their innumerable hills built of dried twigs. It made my flesh creep with horrid visions of the world after scientists-cum-politicians have completed the work of progress."

"I am going to marry Miss Finch, probably in January."