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Faculty of AnaesthetistsThe Dudley Buxton prize for 1980 has been awarded to

Prof. M. K. Sykes, of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School.Dr Norman Dearden has won the Nuffield prize.

Association of Medical Deans in EuropeThe Association for Medical Education in Europe has set up

this association of deans from the 32 European countries of theWorld Health Organisation. A meeting of the new Associationwill be held in Groningen, Netherlands, on Sept. 1, 1980.Further information can be obtained from A.M.E.E., Depart-ment of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, EdinburghEH105HF.

Anti-smoking CampaignThe Health Education Council is conducting an advertising

campaign to persuade parents who smoke that even the young-est children can pick up the smoking habit. The campaign isbased on research conducted by Dr Leo Baric, of ManchesterUniversity. His findings are reported in a monograph entitledPrimary Socialisation and Smoking, available (,C2-50) fromthe Council at 78 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1AH.

Dr Andrei D. Sakharov, the Soviet physicist, has received inabsentia the Presidential award of the New York Academy of Sciences.

The Geological Society of London is holding a meeting on Geology-

and Health at Burlington House, London W 1 V OJU, on Jan. 30. Ap-plications for tickets may be made to the Society’s assistant executivesecretary at Burlington House.

The Chest, Heart and Stroke Association is holding conferences onMay 16 and July 4. The first, entitled Asthma Today, will be heldat Bloomsbury Centre Hotel, Coram Street, London WC1. The second,on Stroke Illness, will take place at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Further details can be had from the Association at Tavistock HouseNorth, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JE.

The Home Warmth for the Aged Benevolent Fund will hold aconference entitled Winter Needs of the Elderly, at West Centre Hotel,London SW6, on Jan. 19, 1980. Details may be had from W. Scott-Ashworth, 12 The Grange, South Darenth, Dartford, Kent DA4 9BG.

International Diary

9th International Symposium on Clinical Enzymology: Verona,Italy, April 17-20 (Prof. Angelo Burlina, Centro di EnzimologiaClinica, c/o Laboratorio di Patologia Clinica Istiti Ospitalieri, 1-37100Verona, Italy).

International Symposium on Nosocomial Infection Control:Hebrew University of Jerusalem, April 28-May 2 (Ms S. Boobis,Kuvin Centre for the Study of Infectious Diseases, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, Israel).

VII International Symposium on Drugs Affecting Lipid Metab-olism: Milan, May 28-31 (Fondazione Giovanni Lorenzini, Via MonteNapoleone 23,20121 Milan).

lst S. B. Gusberg Seminar on Reproductive Immunology: MountSinai Medical Center, New York, June 26-27 (Dr Norbert Gleicher,Reproductive Immunology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York,N.Y.10029).

34th Giornate Mediche Triestine on Recent Advances in Dia-betes: 1’rieste, Sept. 5-6 (Prof. Elio Belsasso, Presidente AssociazioneMedica Triestina, Via della Pieta 19,34129 Trieste).

International Congress on Immediate Care: Brighton, Oct. 22-25(The Secretary, British Association of Immediate Care Schemes, 14Princes Gate, London SW7 1PU).

D.H.S.S. Annual Report

In an effort to reduce the workload of the D.H.S.S. andCivil Service expenditure, the Secretary of State has decidedto terminate all preparation and publication of the 1978annual report of the D.H.S.S. He was considering whether aportion of the material which had already been prepared forthe report might be made available in another way.

Correction

Effect, on Serum Lipid Levels of w-3 Fatty Acids, of Ingest-ing Fish-oil Concentrate.-The second sentence of the secondparagraph of this letter by Dr C. M. van Gent and colleagues(Dec. 8, p. 1249) contains a printer’s error. It should haveread: "The preparation contained 81% of w-3 acids, amongthem 25% EPA and 38% w-3 docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)."

University of London: Impact of Government’s Policy.-We apolo-gise to Dr C. E. Gordon Smith for a mistake in the third paragraphof his comment (Jan. 5, p. 35). The last sentence should read: "TheSchool would expect to be allowed (indeed encouraged) to use its

judgement as to the rate of increase of fees which the market (and par-ticularly the fellowship budgets which support most of its overseas stu-dents) will bear so as to try to maximise income from overseas studentswithout killing the goose that lays the golden egg and without grosslyincreasing unit costs."

Diary of the Week

JAN. 13 TO 19

Monday, 14thINSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, St. John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, Lisle

Street, Leicester Square, London WC2H 7BJ4.30 P.M. Dr M. F. Spittle: Principles of Radiotherapy.

Tuesday, 15thROYAL ARMY MEDICAL COLLEGE, Millbank, London SW1P 4RJ

5 P.M. Mr Norman Rowe: Fractures Involving the Orbit.

Wednesday, 16thINSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY,

4.30 P.M. Dr Y. M. Clayton: Role of Fungi in Skin Diseases.INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY, National Hospital, Queen Square, London WC1N

3BG6 P.M. Mr H. Alan Crockard: Recent Studies of Head Injury.7 P.M. Mr A. E. Richardson: The Management of Head Injuries.

INSTITUTE OF ORTHOPEDICS, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, 234 GreatPortland Street, London W 1

6 P.M. Dr C. B. Wynn Parry: Clinical and Electrodiagnostic Assessment ofNerve Function.

7 P.M. Mr B. Helal: Repair of Flexor Tendons in the Hand.QUEEN CHARLOTTE’S MATERNITY HOSPITAL, Goldhawk Road, London W6 OXG

5.30 P.M. Prof. Carl Wood (Melbourne): Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring.CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTRE, Northwick Park Hospital, Watford Road, Harrow,

Middlesex HA 13UJ1 P.M. Mr L. Klenerman: The Painful Shoulder.4.30 P.M. (Himsworth Hall) Dr J. Newsom Davis: Immunology of Myasthenia

Gravis.ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL COLLEGE,

5 P.M. Prof. R. A. Coles: Hazardous Noise and its Implications for the Soldier.MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH,

8 P.M. (Royal College of Physicians, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh) Dr D. Chis-wick : Macabre Medicine.

Thursday, 17thROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON, 11 St. Andrew’s Place, Regent’s

park, London NW14LE5.30 P.M. Dr P. J. Hare: An Elementary Exercise.

Friday, 18thINSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY, Royal National Throat, Nose and

Ear Hospital, 330/332 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8EE5.30 P.M. Mr P. McKelvie: Hypophysectomy.

Saturday, 19thNUFFIELD ORTHOPEDIC CENTRE, Oxford

8.30 A.M. Mini-Symposium on Brittle Bone SyndromeMr G. R. Houghton: Natural History.Dr M. J. 0. Francis: Biochemistry.Dr R. Smith: Treatment.Mr R. A. Dickson: The Spine.