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Notes and News

NEW YEAR HONOURS

THE honours awarded to members of the medical professionin the list published on Dec. 31 include:Pri,z,v Counsellor

Jesse Dickson Mabon, M.P., Minister of State, Department ofEnergy.K nights Bachelor

John Charnley, F.R.S., formerly professor of orthopaedic surgery,University of Manchester; Gustav Joseph Victor Nossal, director,Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Aus-tralia ; John Revans, formerly regional medical officer, WessexRegional Health Authority; Evan Rees Whitaker Thomson, honoraryconsultant surgeon, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.C.M.G.

Leonard George Goodwin, F.R.S., director, Institute of ComparativeMedicine and director of science, Zoological Society of London; Syd-ney Ralph Reader, director, National Heart Foundation of Australia.

C.B.E. (Military)Air Commodore Elspeth Mavor McKechnie.

C.B.E. ,-Civil,)Kiernan John Joseph Dorney; Samuel Charles Fitzpatrick; Trevor

Charles Noel Gibbens; Archibald David Mant Greenfield; Jean Sin-clair Isbister; Dermot Lehane; Samuel Griffith Owen; Alan Stoller;Thomas Cyril White; Arthur Michael Wood.

Honours awarded to people outside the medical professioninclude:

K. C. V. 0.Lord Hayter, chairman, management committee, King Edward’s

Hospital Fund for London.

Knights BachelorJames Baddiley, F.R.S., director, Microbiological Chemistry

Research Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; John War-cup Cornforth, F.R.S., Royal Society research professor, University ofSussex; David Gwynne Evans, F.R.S., formerly director, National In-stitute for Biological Standards and Control; Herbert Charles Pereira,F.R.s., chief scientist, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food.C.B. (Civtl)Cyril Leonard Bourton, deputy secretary, Department of Healthand Social Security.C.B.E. (Civil)Thomas Douglas Whittet, chief pharmacist, Department of Health

and Social Security.

University of LiverpoolThe title and privileges of emeritus professor have been con-

ferred on Prof. Cecil Gray, who retired as professor of anaes-thesia and dean of the Faculty of Medicine on Dec. 31.Clinical Research Centre

The Medical Research Council have appointed Prof. C. C.Booth to succeed Sir Graham Bull as director of the ClinicalResearch Centre at Northwick Park, Harrow.

After serving in the Royal Navy during the 1939—45 war, ProfessorBooth undertook his medical training at the University of St.Andrews, graduating M.B. in 1951 and M.D. in 1958; he becameF.R.C.P. in 1964 and F.R.C.P.E. in 1969. Apart from junior hospitalappointments in Dundee and Cambridge, the whole of his career hasbeen spent at the Hammersmith Hospital, where he is now consultantphysician, and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, where, afterappointments as medical registrar and tutor, lecturer, and senior lec-turer in medicine, he has been professor of medicine since 1966. Hisresearch interests are in gastroenterology, and he was director of theM.R.C. Malabsorption Research Group from 1967 to 1972. He is amember of the Advisory Board for the Research Councils.

Milbank Memorial Fund

Dr Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Harvard Medical School,has been appointed president.Intensive Care

The second world congress on intensive care will take placein Paris on Sept. 19-23. Details may be had from Dr Ray-mond Nedey, Hopital Foch, 92151 Suresnes, France.

The Neurochemical Group of the Biochemical Society is organisinga workshop on neuromuscular disorders, to be held at the Universityof Bath on March 29-31. Details may be had from Dr G. G. Lunt,Department of Biochemistry, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, or fromDr R. M. Marchbanks, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Psy-chiatry, London SE5 8AF.

The London Medical Orchestra will resume rehearsals at 7 P.M. on

Tuesday, Jan. 11, at Christ Church School, Cosway Street, LondonNW1. All string players and 2nd flute and 2nd bassoon are particu-larly welcome; details may be had from Mrs A. P. Mason, 102 Hamil-ton Terrace, London NW8 (01-286 4367).

An international symposium on radioimmunoassay and related pro-cedures in medicine is to be held by the International Atomic EnergyAgency in West Berlin on Oct. 31 to Nov. 4. Participation must bearranged through national official authorities-in Britain, the U.K.Atomic Energy Authority, 11 Charles II Street, London SW1, in theUnited States, Mr John H. Kave, Special Assistant for Conferences,Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Energy Research and Development Ad-ministration, Washington, D.C. 20545.

CorrigendumFine Cotton Thread Method of Lacrimation.-In the ninth line of

the second paragraph of the letter by Dr Katsuaki Kurihashi (Lancet,1976, ii, 587) the words "as in" should be deleted.

Diary of the Week

JAN. 9 TO 15

Monday, 10thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A

3PN5.30 P.M. Prof. D. W. Hill: The Regional Distribution of Retinal Circulation

(Arns and Gale lecture.)

Tuesday, llthMANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY

8 P.M. (New Medical School.) Surgery. Dr M. H. Hall, Dr David Mornson:Accident Services in the 1980s and 1990s.

Wednesday, 12th ,

INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY, National Hospital, Queen Square, London WCIN3BG

6 P.M. Dr D. N. Landon: The Structure of Normal Peripheral Nerve.7 P.M. Prof. P. K. Thomas: Classification of Peripheral Neuropathies. (Sandoz

Foundation advanced lectures.)INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, St John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, Lisle

Street, Leicester Square, London WC2H 7BJ4.30 P.M. Dr P. G. Goodwm: Principles of Treatment.

INSTITUTE OF ORTHOPALDICS, 234 Great Portland Street, London WIN 6AD6 P.M. Mr D. W. Lamb. Congenital Anomalies and Orthotic Appliances for

the Upper Limb.ROYAL’ FREE HOSPITAL, Pond Street, Hampstead, London NW3 2QG

5 P.M. Prof. J. R. Batchelor: HLA and Disease Associations.NoRTHWtCK PARK HOSPITAL, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ

1 P.M. Dr S. K. Goolamali : Common Skin Problems.MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY

5 P.M. (New Medical School.) Medicine and Pathology. Prof. M. S. Losowsky-The Welcome beyond the Pylorus.

MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH8 P.M. (Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Queen Street, EH2 9HQ.)

Dr Louis Kreel, Dr T. A. S. Buist, Dr M. J. L. Merrick: NewerDiagnostic Imaging Techniques.

Thursday, 13thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND

5 P.M. Mr A. C. Bingold: The Science of Pinning the Neck of the Femur.(Huntenan lecture.)

MEDICO-LEGAL SOCIETY8.15 P.M. (Royal Society of Medicine, Wlmpole Street, London Wl.) Lord

Denning: The Freedom of the Individual Today.MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIb1Y

8.15 P.M. (New Medical School.) Ancesthetrcs. Dr C. J. Hull: Cabinet Leaks-Shocking Exposures!

Saturday, 15thNtFFthLD ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRE, Oxford

8 30 P.M. Dr G. M. Mornss: Embryology of the Axial Skeleton.9.30 P.M. Mr R. A. Dickson : Recent Advances in the Management of Congem-

tal Spmal Deformities.