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Diary of the Week

OCT. 16 To 22Monday, 17theUNIVERSITY COLLEGE, Gower Street, W.C.1

5.30 P.M. Prof. J. F. Danielli, D.sc. : Nuclear and CytoplasmicSites of Drug Action.

POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON, Ducane Road,London, W.12

4 P.M. Dr. W. A. Briscoe : Why Do Respiratory Function Tests ?LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE, Keppel

Street, W.C.15 P.M. Madame Alva Myrdal: The Interplay of Factors in the

Development Process. (First of five Heath Clark lectures.)INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY, Queen Square, W.C.1

5 P.M. Dr. Leonard Kurland (U.S.A.) : The Etiologic Significanceof Epidemiologic Research in Multiple Sclerosis andAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

INSTITUTE OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNÆCOLOGY3 P.M. (Chelsea Hospital for Women, S.W.3.) Mr. H. J. Fisher :

Postoperative Electrolyte Balance.HUNTERIAN SOCIETY

8.30 P.M. (Talbot Restaurant, London Wall, E.C.2.) Mr. A.Dickson W’right : How Patients Have Deceived Me.(Presidential address.)

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH5 P.M. (University New Buildings, Teviot Row.) Prof. R. A.

McCance, F.R.s. : Chemical Structure of the Body.(Sharpey Schafer lecture.)

Tuesday, 18thROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON, Pall Mall East, S.W.1

3 P.m. Sir John Charles : The Contrivance of Collegiation.(Harveian oration.)

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’s Inn Fields,W.C.2 -

3.45 P.M. Dr. L. W. Proger : Pneumatosis. (Erasmus Wilsondemonstration.)

THE LONDON HOSPITAL MEDICAL COLLEGE, E.15 P.M. Prof. L. J. Witts : Anaemia and the Alimentary Tract.

(Schorstein. lecture.)ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, Paddington, W.2

5 P.m. Mr. Arthur Bell: Third Stage of Labour and PostpartumHaemorrhage.

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL COLLEGE, Millbank, S.W.15 P.M. Dr. H. A. Burt : Minor Joint Complaints.

INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY. 5.30 P.M. Dr. Macdonald Critchley: Psychological Aspects

of Pain.SOUTH WEST LONDON MEDICAL SOCIETY

8.30 P.M. (Bolingbroke Hospital.) Dr. Mary Wilmers : AllergicDiseases of Children.

ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HYGIENE, 28, PortlandPlace, W.1

5 P.M. Prof. G. P. Crowden : Environmental Factors AffectingComfort, Health and Working Capacity. (Bengué lecture.)

Wednesday, 19theUNIVERSITY COLLEGE

5.45 P.M. Dr. James V. Neel (Michigan) : Genetic Control ofHaemoglobin Synthesis. (Galton lecture.)

ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole Street, W.15 P.M. Comparatire Medicine. Prof. James McCunn: Liaison

Between Two Professions with Similar Interests. (Presiden-tial address.)

8.15 P.M. General P1’actice. Dr. R. J. Minnitt : A Surgeon andSeven Pieces of Old Silver. (Valedictory address.)

POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON2 P.M. Dr. J. D. N. Nabarro : Diabetes and Carbohydrate

Metabolism. (First of two lectures.)INSTITUTE OF DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Brompton Hospital, S.W.3

5 P.M. Mr. T. Holmes Sellors : Diaphragmatic Hernia.EUGENICS SOCIETY

5.30 P.m. (Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W.1.)Dr. J. F. Loutit : Biological Hazards of Nuclear Fission.

ST. MARYLEBONE HOSPITAL FOR PSYCHIATRY AND CHILD GUIDANCE,48, Cosway Street, Marylebone Road, N.W.1

5.30 P.M. Dr. E. H. Larkin : Major Psychiatric Syndromes.HYPNOTHERAPY GROUP

8 P.m. (1, Wimpole Street, W.I.) Dr. A. G. Davies : Scopeand Limitations of Hypnotherapy.

MIDLAND MEDICAL SOCIETY8.15 P.M. (Midland Hotel.) Sir Ernest Finch: Leonardo da

Vinci.

NOTTINGH-A---Nf MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY, 64, St. James’s Street,Nottingham

8.30 P.M. Dr. H. J. Parish : Recent Trends in PreventiveInoculation.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF EDINBURGH, Edinburgh, 83.30 P.M. Sir Clement Price Thomas: Conservative Resection

of the Bronchial Tree.

Thursday, 20thROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE, 26, Portland

Place, W.17.30 P.M. Prof. R. M. Gordon : The Host-parasite Relationship

in Filariasis. (Presidential address.)

WEST LONDON MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY9 P.M. (Fellows’ Restaurant, Zoological Gardens.) G. B. Woodd-

Walker : Man Alive. (Presidential address.)BRITISH INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGY, 32, Welbeck Street, W.1

8 P.M. : Mr. E. Cotchin, M.R.c.v.s. : Neoplasia in DomesticatedMammals.

LIVERPOOL MEDICAL INSTITUTION, 114, Mount Pleasant, 38 P.M. Mr. Ronald Edwards, Prof. Charles Wells : Hiatus Hernia.

’ MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY8 P.M. Anæsthetics. Dr. J. McAuley : Two Schools of Thought.

, (Presidential address.)UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS

5 P.M. (Queen’s College, Small’s Wynd, Dundee.) ProfessorMcCance : Metabolism and Renal Function in the FirstTwo Days of Life.

Friday, 21stUNIVERSITY COLLEGE

’ 5 P.M. Dr. R. W. Sperry (California) : Neural MechanismsUnderlying Perception.

POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON2 P.M. Mr. Sol Cohen : Limb Gangrene.4 P.M. Prof. W. D. M. Paton : Application of Synaptic Pharma-

cology to Clinical Practice.INSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY, 330, Gray’s Inn Road,

W.C.13.30 P.M. Mr. Willlfm McKenzie : Tonsil and Adenoid Problem.

INSTITUTE OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNÆCOLOGY3 P.M. (Hammersmith Hospital.) Prof. R. J. Kellar : Placental

Dysfunction.ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE

5 P.m. Epidemiology and Preventi,ve Medicine. Dr. J. C. McDonald,Miss Ruth E. Charter : B. coli sero-types in a Nursery.Dr. J. G. Holmes : Epidermophytosis in Miners.

8.15 P.M. Radiology. Dr. Drew Thomson, Dr. A. M. Jelliffe:Possible Significance of the Thymic Origin of Hodgkin’sDisease.

FACULTY OF RADIOLOGISTS5 P.M. (Royal College of Surgeons.) Radiotherapy. Dr. E. F.

Scowen : Indications for the Ablation of Endocrine Activityin the Ovaries, Adrenals, and Anterior Pituitary in theTreatment of Breast Cancer.

SIGERIST SOCIETY7.30 P.M. (45, Russell Square, W.C.1.) Dr. Brian Kirman : The

Problem of the Backward Child.WEST MIDLANDS PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION

11 A.M. (Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, 15.) Autumnmeeting.

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

Mr. R. B. Wright, Dr. R. W. D. Turner: Assessment ofFitness for Operation in the Elderly. (Joint meeting withthe Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow.)

AppointmentsCROW, JOHN, L.R.C.P.E., D.A.: whole-time asst. anaesthetist (S.H.M.O.),

based at the Invernes hospitals.DODDS, R. J., M.B. Durh., D.P.H. : M.O.H. and principal school M.o..

Smethwick.GEORGE, J. T. A., M.D. Birm.. D.P.H. : deputy county M.O., Yorks.MILLAR, 1. B., M.D. Belf., D.P.H. : M.o.H., Welshpool, Montgomery,

and Llanfyllin boroughs.O’MALLEY, A. G., M.CH. ORTH. Lpool, F.R.C.s.E. : consultant ortho-

pædic surgeon, Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool.PIERCE, H. L., M.B. Canib. : appointed factory doctor, Keighley,

Yorks.SCADDING, F. H., M.D. Lond., F.R.C.P.: asst. consultant physician.

Brompton Hospital, London.

Birmingham Regional Hospital Board:ALEXANDER, M. K., M.B. Lpool, D.PATH. : whole-time consultant

pathologist, South Warwickshire group.DoLTON’, E. G., F.R.c.s. : part-time consultant thoracic surgeon,

Dudley, Stourbridge and Lichfield, Sutton Coldfield andTamworth groups.

GRAY, I. R., M.D. Lond. : part-time consultant physician.Coventry group.

JACOBS, PHILIP, M.B. Brist., D.M.R.D. : part-time consultantradiologist, Birmingham (Selly Oak) group.

MARSHALL, A. T., F.R.C.S.E.: part-time consultant obstetricianand gynæcologist, South Worcestershire group.

RICHARDS, D. G., M.D. Birm. : part-time consultant physician:Walsall and West Bromwich groups.

THORX, P. A., M.D. Lond. : part-time consultant physician,Wolverhampton group.

WALKDEN, W. J., M.B. Birm. : whole-time consultant in geron-tology and medicine, West Bromwich, Dudley and Stour-bridge groups.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths

MARRIAGES

FLTXN—WARRICK.—On Sept. 24, at St. John’s, Blackheath,Frederick Flynn, M.D., to Ann Warrick, M.B., D.C.H.

O’REILLY-DALEY.-On Oct. 8, at Wimbledon, J. N. O’Reilly,M.R.C.P., to Doreen Daley, F.R.C.O.&., daughter of Sir Allen Daley,F.R.C.P., and Lady Daley.