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the injection occurred with great uniformity. Improve-ment in the general condition out of proportion tothe change in the temperature curve was the moststriking phenomenon. Two or three hours after the

injection the temperature began to decline, the feversometimes terminating by crisis.

RHODESIAN MAN.

EXPERTS have long differed as to whether theremains found in the Mousterian period and the variousskeletons known as the Heidelberg man, the Piltdownman, and pithecanthropus are more or less in the directline of descent of present-day man from the higher apes,Dr whether they count as offshoots from the humanstem which did not mature. At a recent meeting ofthe Ulster Medical Society, which we briefly report,Prof. T. Walmsley emphasised the point of view thatall these earlier types are more divergent among them-selves than present-day human races and should rankas different species. Further light on the questionmay be expected when the precise systematic positionhas been determined of the skull unearthed by Mr.W. E. Barren last summer in a Rhodesian cave andnow in the British Museum. In Nature for Nov. 17thDr. A. S. Woodward, F.R.S., sets out the points inwhich this skull resembles and differs from those ofother prehistoric findings. Its general appearance isstrangely similar to -that of the Neanderthal man,the large and heavy face being even more simian inappearance ; the median longitudinal ridge shows anaffinity to that found in pithecanthropus althoughmuch larger ; the great flat maxillaries resemble thoseof the La Chapelle skull; the narial openings rundown upon the face as in the gorilla, while the anteriornasal spine is typically human. The position of theforamen magnum gives reason to postulate an erectattitude, and the portion of the tibia found does notdiffer essentially from that of a tall and robust modernman. The fact that at first sight the dentition appearsto be affected with caries makes this Rhodesian manvery modern indeed. But these and many otherpoints remain to be cleared up by discussion at theAnatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

THE MEDICAL DIRECTORY.

THE Medical Directory for 1922, which has justreached us, is the seventy-eighth annual issue, andappears a week earlier than it did last year. Thenumerical summary of the medical profession onpage 37 shows that the number of names in theLondon area is practically stationary, while thereis an increase of 21 names in the Provincial sectionand much more considerable additions under theheadings of Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Abroad, andthe Services. The total number of names in theDirectory is now 45,586, as against 44,926 last year-an increase of 660. A useful addition is the list ofhonorary secretaries of the statutory local medicaland panel committees which appears on pages 33 to 35.The volume, though large, is handy and convenient,and the information it contains is not only accurate,but arranged with taste and a sense of proportion.The price of the Directory is 36s. net.

THE Thomas Vicary Lecture will be delivered atthe Royal College of Surgeons of England nextThursday, Dec. 8th, by Sir Charles Ballance, whohas taken as his subject A Glimpse into the Historyof the Surgery of the Brain.

A SOCIAL evening will be held at the Royal Society1)f Medicine on Wednesday, Dec. 7th, at 8 P.M., whenthe President of the Society and Lady Bland-Suttonwill receive Fellows and their friends. At 9 P.M. SirBerkeley Moynihan will deliver a short illustratedaddress on Medicine in Art.

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TUESDAY, NOV. 22ND.THE address delivered by the President was reported

in last week’s issue of THE LANCET. At its conclusiona vote of thanks to the President was carried byacclamation. The PREStDENT then read a letter fromMr. Norman Bennett, formally tendering his resigna-tion as a member of the Council.

Dental Education and Examination Committee.-Mr.Dolamore, Mr. Gilmour, and Mr. Guy were appointedadditional members of the committee until the nextelection of the committee.Dentists Act, 19 21.-The Council proceeded to appoint

three members, one from each of the English, Scottish,and Irish branches, to be members of the Dental Boardof the United Kingdom ; Mr. Waring, Sir JamesHodsdon, and Sir Arthur Chance were appointed. Onmotions put from the chair, it was agreed (1) that thebusiness of the Council arising out of the DentistsAct, 1921, be delegated to the Dental ExecutiveCommittee until the next session of the Council inMay, 1922 ; (2) that Mr. Dolamore be appointed amember of the Executive Committee for DentalBusiness, and that the committee so constituted be theDental Executive Committee under the Dentists Act,1921.

Restoration of Names to the lIedical Register.-TheCouncil then deliberated on certain items of businessin camera. Strangers having been readmitted, thePRESIDENT announced that the Registrar had beendirected to restore to the Medical Register the namesof Nariman Hormasji Clubwala and Thomas StancySharpley.

Penal Cases.

The Council then proceeded to the consideration ofpenal cases.

The Case of Clement Thomas Cory Kingdon.-TheCouncil considered the case, adjourned from May 24th,of Clement Thomas Cory -Kingdon, registered as of62, Falcon-road, Clapham Junction, S.W., M.B., C.M.,1893, M.D. 1905, U.Edin., who appeared before theCouncil on the following charge :-

" That, being a registered medical practitioner, you, onFeb. 7th, 1921, signed and gave to one W. McKernon, ex-member of the Australian Imperial Force, a certificate datedFeb. 5th, 1921, that the said W. McKernon was sufferingfrom influenza, and was at present (i.e., on Feb. 5th, 1921)unable to travel, whereas you had neither seen nor examinedthe said W. McKernon on Feb. 5th, 1921, or at all beforeFeb. 7th, 1921 ; and that in relation thereto you have beenguilty of infamous conduct in a professional respect."The complainants were the Australian Imperial

Force, represented by Major E. W. Morris.At the conclusion of the case the PRESIDENT

announced the decision of the Council as follows :-I have to inform you that the Council has found that the

facts which were alleged against you in the notice of inquiry.... have been proved to its satisfaction, but that theCouncil has taken into consideration the evidence as to yourprevious good character and your assurance that the certifi-cate was given without due care and thought. In order togive you an opportunity to rehabilitate your character and toprove to the Council that you realise the gravity of youroffence, the Council has postponed judgment till the Novembersession, when you will be required to attend and to produceevidence from your professional brethren regarding yourconduct, and in particular in regard to your practice in thegiving of certificates. Before that date you will be requiredto send to the Registrar of the Council the names of some ofyour professional brethren who may be willing, upon writtenapplication from the Registrar, to testify, by letter addressedto him for the use of the Council, as to your character andconduct in the interval. You will receive, in due course, aformal written intimation of what I have just announced toyou, and the intimation will specify the dates to which Ihave referred.

Dr. Kingdon attended in answer to his notice. Hewas not accompanied by counsel or solicitor. TheAustralian Imperial Force, the complainant, was notrepresented, but Major Morris, its representative atthe hearing in May, having seen the evidence as to