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Hunterian Society.The Hunterian Oration will be delivered by Dr. J. B.

Christopherson at the Apothecaries’ Hall, Water-lane,London. E.C., at 9 P.M. on Thursday, Feb. 25th. His subjectwill be the Etiology of Chronic Bronchitis.

Royal Statistical Society.Prof. Major Greenwood, F.R.S., will give an address

to this society at 5.15 P.M. on Tuesday, Feb. 16th, in thehall of the Royal Society of Arts, John-street, Adelphi,London, W.C. His subject is the Quantity and Qualityof Officia,l Statistical Publications.The Marie Curie Hospital.The first endowed bed at this hospital was dedicated last

week by the Bishop of Exeter, representing the women ofDevon who have subscribed £2000 for the purpose. Thefirst occupant came from Plymouth, the bed being intendedfor the free treatment of Devonshire women.

Subscription Benefits at King’s College Hospital.At a dinner in aid of this hospital last week Lord Gorell

explained a scheme for attracting new subscribers. Asubscription of £1 by a single person, £1 10s. by a marriedcouple, and £2 by married persons with children will givethe right during the year to three weeks’ in-patientmaintenance and treatment.

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.The Langley prize, which is usually awarded every three

years for the best paper submitted by officers of the WestAfrican Medical Service-whether on the active or retiredlist-has been awarded by the School in equal shares toDr. E. C. Smith, for his paper, A Dermatological Atlas ofNigeria, and Dr. Hope Gill. for his paper on DiagnosticMethods in Human Trypanosomiasis.University of Durham College of Medicine.The second of a series of lectures on Recent Advances

in Physiology applicable to Medicine will be given at thisCollege, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, at 4.45 P.M., on Friday,Feb. 19th. The lecturer will be Dr. J. J. R. Macleod,F.R.S., regius professor of physiology in the University ofAberdeen, and the subject Diabetes as a PhysiologicalProblem. Medical practitioners are invited to attend.Tuberculosis Association.At a meeting of this association, to be held at Oxford

from March 17th to 19th, the principal subjects of discus-sion will be Chronic Pulmonary Suppuration and its Treat-ment by Bronchoscopy and Drainage (Dr. A. S. ScottPinchin and Dr. H. V. Morlock), Selective Lung Collapsein Bilateral Disease (Dr. F. Gravesen), and the Ætiologyand Treatment of Spontaneous Pneumothorax (Dr. L. S. T.Burrell). The hon. secretary of the association is Dr. G. T.Hebert, of St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, S.E. 1.

Royal Medical Benevolent Fund.At the meeting held in January the committee voted 78

grants amounting to 1844. The following are particularsof a few cases helped :- !

M.R.C.S., aged 62. One daughter aged 9. Applicant had to retire in 1929. He is suffering from chronic nephritis. He Ihas had a number of cerebral attacks, culminating in a heemor-rhage which has caused paralysis. He can barely walk, and heis mentally incapable of any work. By the time he retired thepractice had deteriorated and was unsaleable. The applicantand his wife are living on a pension of £87 10s. a year. Thedaughter’s school fees have been arranged for. Fund voted£40 in four instalments, and other societies are being approachedto coöperate with this case.Widow, aged 53, of L.R.C.P. Husband died in 1927. The

applicant suffers from cardiac condition and gall-stones, and istotally unfit for any employment. Her eldest daughter, aged 30,is paralysed and mentally affected, so that she requires constantcare and attention. The youngest daughter is delicate. Theson, aged 22, is a junior clerk. His salary is £80 a year, and hecontributes £24 to assist his mother. The applicant’s incomeis £90 a year. Fund voted 26, in four instalments, and willseek the help of other charities for this unfortunate family.Widow, aged 67, of M.D. The applicant’s husband was in

receipt of an annuity of £40 from this Fund, and a Governmentpension which ceased at his death in 1932. The widow is leftpenniless. It is hoped that some reduced pension may beobtained from the Government for the widow. Fund voted 26in four instalments.Widow, aged 55, of L.S.A. Husband died after a few days’

illness in November, 1931, at the age of 63. When the practiceand house are disposed of, it is expected that there will benothing left from the estate, for there is a mortgage to be paidoff and debts to settle. There is a daughter, aged 14x. Theonly son, aged 30, a married man, is surgeon in one of H.M.Services stationed abroad, with a salary of £400 a year, and isat present allowing his mother £10 a month. Fund voted26. The Ladies’ Guild of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fundwill assist in the education of the daughter.

Cheques should be made payable to the hon. treasurerof the Fund, 11. Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, London,W. 1.

Inquiry into Mental Deficiency.The Minister of Health received a deputation on Feb. 9th

’ from the County Councils Association, the Association ofMunicipal Corporations, and the Mental Hospitals Associa-tion on the subject of the sterilisation of mental deficients.They represented that while the associations for whichthey spoke had reached no final conclusion upon the desira-

’ bility of sterilising mental deficients, they considered that’

the time had come at which a full inquiry should be made! into the whole question. The Minister said that he agreed

that there was a need for inquiry, and he proposed, as afirst step, to arrange for inquiry to be made by competentpersons into its scientific aspects.

Dentistry and National Health.The Brighton and Hove Provident Dental Hospital has

’ just removed to new quarters at 7. Buckingham-road,’ Brighton, and was formally opened on Feb. 5th by Sir Norman

Bennett. After pointing out that the bearing which theteeth had on the general health had been increasingly

[ appreciated of late years. Sir Norman said that whatwas wanted particularly now was some sort of service for

[ adolescents between school-leaving age and the age at which. they qualified for insurance benefits ; for when children

left school they got out of the habit of having their teethregularly inspected. The present system of nationaldentistry might be summarised broadly as a fairly efficient,but lamentably weak, school service, a period of almost

. compulsory neglect, a further period of voluntary neglect.concluding with a short, intensive, and drastic course of

[ treatment in middle or advanced age. Sir Norman expressedhis sympathy with the hospital because it gave dental

’ treatment to those who could not pay for it, or could only: pay a little, and was prepared to give a similar service to

wage-earners, with incomes below a certain limit, in returnfor weekly payments throughout the year under the SussexProvident Scheme.

AppointmentsBAND, D., M.B., Ch.B. Edin., F.R.C.S. Edin., has bøen appointed

Assistant General Surgeon, Hospital for Diseases of Women,Edinburgh.

POOLER, H. E., M.B., Ch.B. St. And., Ron. Anæsthetist,Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

TAYLOR. DOROTHY M.. M.B., Ch.B. Edin., Maternity and ChildWelfare Officer, Sunderland Council.

THOMAS, OLIVER F., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., D.P.H., Tuber-culosis Officer, Sunderland Council.

Births, Marriages, and DeathsBIRTHS.

BEATSON.—On Feb. 2nd, at Grey Friars, Hutton Mount,Brentwood, Essex, the wife of Major B. Fraser Beatson,I.M.S. (ret.), of a son.

CAWTHORNE.—On Feb. 3rd, at Welbeck-street, W., the wifeof Terence Cawthorne, F.R.C.S., of a son.

MARRIAGES.TYLECOTE—PHYTHIAN.—On Feb. 6th, at Hitchin, Frank

Edward Tylecote, M.D., F.R.C.P. Lond., Professor ofSystematic Medicine in the University of Manchester, toMable Phythian, Ph.D., late Warden of the Elvington

, Settlement, Kent.’ DEATHS.BROOK.--On Feb. 6th, at Mundesley, Norfolk, Samuel Stanley

Brook, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., aged 46.DAVIS.—On Feb. 4th, in a nursing home, London, Arthur

Randall Davis, M.R.C.S., of Oaklands, Hythe, in his77th year.

LILLIES.-On Feb. 5th, at Ashley-gardens, S.W., ArthurChudleigh Lillies, son of the late George William Lillies,M.D., aged 73.

RAINSFORD.—On Feb. 4th, at Oak Lodge, Rolle-road, Exmouth,Colonel W. J. R. Rainsford, C.I.E., L.R.C.P.I., F.R.C.S.I.,aged 80 years.

REBOUL.—On Feb. 4th, at Cannes, very suddenly, Dr. A. E.Reboul, L.R.C.P. Edin., M.D.Mont., of Chatelguyon andCannes, aged 58.

SINCLAIR.—Suddenly on board M.V. Reina del Pacifico, ThomasWalker Sinclair, M.D., D.P.H., late Medical Officer ofHealth, Melbourne, Australia.

WILLIAMS.—On Feb. 2nd, very suddenly, Dr. Robert StenhouseWilliams, Al.13., C.M., D.Se., Director of the NationalInstitute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading.

N.B.—A fee of 7s. 6d. is charged for the insertion of Notices ofBirths, Marriages, and Deaths.