500

Wellcome Trust

This Trust has made a grant of El 3,000 to provide the firsttwo years’ stipend and technical and secretarial assistance fora chair of surgery to be set up in the new postgraduate medicalschool of the University of Cambridge.The first three chairs in the postgraduate school are to be in

surgery, medicine, and psychiatry, but funds for the second and thirdchairs will not be available until October, 1967, the start of the nextuniversity quinquennium. A recent change at Addenbrooke’s

Hospital has freed surgical beds immediately for the new professor’suse, and the grant from the Wellcome Trust will enable this chairto be filled this year.

Regional Hospitals’ Consultants and SpecialistsAssociation

This Association is offering the H. J. McCurrich prize in1966 for an essay on the use and abuse of steroids. The prize(100 guineas) is open to registered medical practitioners up toand including consultants serving or having served on the staffsof regional board hospitals. Further particulars may be hadfrom the hon. secretary of the Association at the Royal Collegeof Surgeons, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, W.C.2.

Thistle Foundation, EdinburghThis Foundation, which is a settlement on the outskirts of

Edinburgh where severely disabled ex-Servicemen may livewith their families in their own homes, has set up a fellowship(E3000 p.a. for three years) for research on diseases and dis-abilities to which the residents at the Foundation are subject.The first fellowship has been awarded to Edinburgh Universityto allow Prof. F. J. Gillingham to undertake research intocerebral vascular disease.

Royal Medico-Psychological AssociationThis Association has moved into its new premises at Chandos

House, 2, Queen Anne Street, London, W.1, and all corres-pondence should be sent to the new address. The new

telephone number is LANgham 2782. The library will notmove until the second week in March, and telephone inquiriesto the library should be made to the old number (LANgham1495) until then.On March 15, the BritishJournal of Psychiatry will also move

to Chandos House. The new telephone number will be

LANgham 3124.

Ophthalmological Society of the United KingdomThe annual congress of this society will be held from

April 21 to 23 at the Royal College of Physicians, 11, St.Andrew’s Place, Regent’s Park, London, N.W.l. The pro-gramme will include discussions on the surgical treatment ofretinal detachment and on visual problems of the aged. OnApril 22 Prof. Norman Ashton will give the Bowman lecture.He will speak on vaso-glial reactions in retinal disease.

Royal Society of Health CongressThe annual health congress of this society will be held at

Eastbourne from April 26 to 30. The guest speaker at theinaugural meeting will be Lord Shawcross, whose subject willbe Progress in Health-Application of Medical Research.

At 2 P..,,i. on Saturday, March 27, a meeting of the North ofEngland Otolaryngological Society is to be held at Chester RoyalInfirmary.

A Spring dinner of the Wessex Rahere Club will take place onApril 3, at Sofroni’s Restaurant, Torquay. Further details will be hadfrom Dr. George Lloyd, Kirkham, Babbacombe, Torquay.

The .Ministry of Health’s Hospital Equipment Vote no. 22 givesguidance on basic equipment for an accident and emergency depart-ment H.Vi. Stationery Office. 6s., postage 5d.).

CoRRiGEXDCM: Cerebral Biopsu in Presenile Dementia.-In our

annotation last week we mistakenly said that the work by Dr. MyreSim and Dr. Walter Smith, of Birmingham, had been done at theInstitute of Psychiatry.

Diary of the Week

FEB. 28 TO MARCH 6

Monday, 1stPOSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON, Ducane Road, W.12 24 P.M. Dr. J. Richmond: Reticulosis and the Spleen.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn Road, W.C.I.5 P.M. Mrs. M. L. J. Abercrombie: Observer Error.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF GLASGOW, 242, St. VincentStreet, Glasgow

5.15 P.M. Dr. W. W. Buchanan: Clinical Studies in Auto-immune Disease.(Watson Prize lecture.)

GLASGOW POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL BOARD11 P.M. Scottish Television and Grampian Television: Viruses and Cancer.

Tuesday, 2ndBRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL FEDERATION

5.30 P.M. (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.) Dr.C. E. D. Taylor: Diagnostic Applications of Immuno-fluorescence.

ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, W.25 P.M. Prof. G. G. Lennon: Intra-uterine Foetal Surgery.

INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, Lisle Street, W.C.24.30 P.M. Dr. D. J. Cripps: Cutaneous Aspects of Porphyria.

Wednesday, 3rdPOSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON

2 P.M. Dr. J. L. Emery: Post Mortem Assessment of the Duration ofIllness in Children.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL5.15 P.M. Prof. Henry Miller: Current Research in Multiple Sclerosis.

INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY, NATIONAL HOSPITAL, Queen Square, W.C.16 P.M. Dr. D. H. M. Woollam: Circulation of the Cerebrospinal Fluid.7 P.M. Dr. M. G. C. Ashby: Cerebrospinal Fluidin Meningitis.

INSTITUTE OF DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Brompton, S.W.3.5 P.M. Sir Russell’ Brock: Basic Principles in the Diagnosis of Intra-

thoracic Disease.INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY

4.30 P.M. Dr. R. H. Marten: Oculo-cutaneous Disorders.MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY

4.30 P.M. (Medical School.) Joint meeting with the Liverpool MedicalInstitution.

MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH8.30 P.M. (Royal College of Surgeons, 18, Nicholson Street, Edinburgh.)

Prof. William Gissane: Road Accidents.

Thursday, 4thUNIVERSITY OF LONDON

5 P.M. (St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, W.2.) Prof. Marcus Singer:The Trophic Role of the Nervous System.

BRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL FEDERATION5.30 P.M. Dr. J. R. Hobbs: Disturbances of the Immunoglobulins.

POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON4 P.M. Mr. H. I. Glass: Tracer Kinetics.

INSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY5.30 P.M. (Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C.2.)

Prof. A. W. Wilkinson: Tracheo-cesophageal Fistula.NUFFIELD ORTHOPEDIC CENTRE

8.30 P.M. (Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Hospital.) Mr. J. Charnley:Problems of Basic Research in Total Prosthetic Replacement of the Hip.

UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS5 P.M. (Queen’s College, Dundee.) Prof. G. H. Lathe: The Biochemical

Basis of Jaundice.UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN

4.30 P.M. (University Medical Buildings, Foresterhill.) Prof. L. J. Witts:Adverse Reactions to Drugs.

Friday, 5thPOSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON

10 A.M. Mr. J. Corcoran: Genito-urinary Tuberculosis in Ireland.4 P.M. Prof. Paul Fourman: Osteomalacia Today.

INSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY, 330, Gray’s Inn Road, W.C.15.30 P.M. Dr. L. H. Capel: Nasal Allergy.

Saturday,6thTHE FACULTY OF RADIOLOGISTS

9.30 A.M. (Chemistry Block, University of Sheffield.) All-day meeting.

AppointmentsADAM, R. M., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.O.G., D.OBST.: consultant obstetrician and

gynaecologist. South Somerset clinical area.MILLS, P. V., M.B., B.sc. Lond., F.R.C.S., D.o.: consultant ophthalmologist,

Bath clinical area.O’CONNOR, Kevin, M.B. Lond., F.R.C.S.E., M.R.C.O.G. : honorary assistant

obstetrician and gynaecologist. Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth,London.

RITCHIE, G. L., M.B. Aberd., F.R.C.S.E., F.F.R., D.M.R.T.: consultant radio-therapist, Royal Infirmary and Western General Hospital, Edinburgh.

South East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board:CRELLIN, R. Q., M.B. Lond., F.R.C.S. : consultant orthopaedic surgeon,

Camberwell hospital group.MURRAY, B. R., M.B. Lond., F.F.A. R.C.S. : consultant anaesthetist, St.

Francis and The Lady Chichester and Brighton and Lewes hospitalgroups.

OWEN, R. A., M.B. Cantab., F.R.C.S., D.o.: consultant ophthalmologist,Dartford hospital group.

RosiN, A. J., M.B. Glasg., M.R.C.P. : consultant in geriatrics and generalmedicine, Bermondsey and Southwark hospital group.

SHAW, G. K., M.B. St. And., D.P.M.: consultant psychiatrist, Bexleyhospital group.