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and established a truly surprising record of socialservice in branches of public life. For many yearshe was physician to the Ulster Hospital for Childrenand Women. On the establishment in 1894 of the

Campbell College he was elected physician to thislarge boarding-school, and here he gained the affectionand regard of successive generations of boys. In1909 he was vice-president of the Section of Diseasesof Children at the British Medical Association meeting,and in 1919 was chairman of the Belfast Division.

Having given much time and interest to the affairsof the B.M.A., he was pleased at being elected tothe Council of the Association in 1923, and attendedthe meetings of this body in London with regularity.In 1912 he was chosen president of the Ulster MedicalSociety.

Intensely interested in educational affairs heobtained a practical outlet for his views as a memberof the Senate of the Royal University of Ireland,and on its dissolution he was made an honoraryLL,D. He was later appointed a senator of theQueen’s University of Belfast, where he took anactive interest in every phase of university lifeand gave his services on many committees. Yetanother body with which he was actively associatedwas the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. For manyyears he conducted ambulance classes in the Campbell’College and in his own part of Belfast, and for hisservices to the Order, particularly during the war,;he was created a Knight of Grace and an HonoraryAssociate. Dr. Leslie also took a keen interest inthe Masonic Order, in which he held high office, andhe was one of the founders and first masters of theUniversity Lodge.

" Richard Leslie," writes a medical friend, " wasa man of great charm, broad views, and wide culture,a polished speaker and a wise counsellor, a notedmediator and peacemaker among his brethren, a

skilful physician beloved by patients and colleagues."

JOHN ROBERT DAVISON, M.D. R.U.I.

Dr. J. R. Davison died at his home in Belfast on

Sept. 17th in his seventy-nrst year. He was born inLeeds and educated at Toleraine Academical Institu-tion and Queen’s College, Belfast, graduating inarts in 1880 and as M.D. in 1887. As a young manhe represented Ireland on eight occasions in associationfootball; later in life he took up bowls, and againbecame an international. One of the most familiarfigures in Belfast, he rose in medicine, as in sport,to a leading position among the practitioners of thecity. He was a man of much ability, and held thehonour of his profession in high regard.

THE death of Mrs. MARGARET LAMONT, M.D. (neeTraill Christie), at Port Said last August, brought toan end a life of very varied experience. After asuccessful student career at Bedford College and theLondon (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicinefor Women, she graduated in 1895. Next yearshe went to India on special plague duty andlater took charge of the Dufferin Hospital, at Calcutta,where she subsequently married. After furtherwanderings Dr. Lamont settled in Shanghai andrecently her home was in Durban where her twomarried daughters are now living. The subjectof medical missions always occupied a chief place inher interests, and it was when travelling for this causethat she was overtaken by her last illness.

MEDICAL GRADUATES FOR

PARLIAMENT.

TWENTY-THREE medical men and one medicalwoman have faced a contested election this week.We regret the inadvertent omission from the list inour last issue of the name of Dr. G. V. Worthington,standing as a National Labour for Gloucester (Forestof Dean). Following is a list of candidates, suc-cessful and unsuccessful, so far as the results wereknown at the time of going to press. As alreadyannounced, Prof. T. Sinclair (Queen’s University,Belfast) and Dr. J. H. Morris-Jones, Denbigh(Denbigh), were elected without opposition. Wemust defer until our next issue the usual votinganalysis.

ELECTED.

I The sign t indicates membership of the last House ofI Commons. The sign$of any previous Parliament.

THE COLYER PRIZE.

THE first award of this prize will be made in July,1932. It was founded by the Royal Society ofMedicine in June, 1926, to commemorate the 25 years’service of Sir Frank Colyer as honorary curator ofthe odontological museum. The accumulated incomeof this fund may be used every third year for thepurpose of awarding a prize for the best original workin dental science completed, during the previous fiveyears, by a dental surgeon educated at any dulyrecognised dental school in Great Britain or NorthernIreland, who has not been qualified to practise morethan five years at the date of the award. The prizecommittee is composed of the president of the society,the curator of the odontological museum, and tworepresentatives to be appointed by the council ofthe Section of Odontology. The committee havepower to withhold the prize if they consider thatno work has been submitted of sufficient merit tojustify its award, and to arrange instead for a lecture,or lectures, upon some subject related to the odonto-logical museum, according the lecturer an honorariumfrom the fund. Applications from candidates forthe first award should be submitted to the prizecommittee (1, Wimpole-street, London, W.1) notlater than March 31st, 1932, together with a generalaccount of researches, completed and in progress.