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THE CALL OF THE ALPS.

To the Editor, of THE LANCET.

’SIR,-We observe that in your issue of Nov. 8th you quoteofficial returns in disproof of the statement contained in ourletter of October that "we are witnessing a veritableGerman exodus from Davos." Yet that statement is true.Your comparison of the numbers of visitors for two successiveweeks affords no just criterion of a process lasting months.If for brevity’s sake any two sets of figures are to beselected they should be the present returns and those forthe same date last year, in order to eliminate the seasonalfactor in fluctuation. There are now in Davos and

,neighbourhood in all 906 German visitors as against 2500in November, 1918. Further, the decrease has been on thewhole continuous, and that at a time of year when newarrivals were formerly numerous. It may be added in passingthat the English have, on the contrary, just doubled theirnumber.We have reason to know that the general opinion of those

interested differs widely from that expressed in your articlein attaching great importance to this point, and we therefore.ask you to find space for this reply to your criticism.

We are, Sir, yours faithfully,W G LOCKETT

Davos, Nov. 12th, 1919.

W. G. LOCKETT,British Vice-Consul.

ARNOLD F. BILL, M.D.

*** Dr. Bill has sent us a certified record of the numberof visitors in the Davos Valley for the last 14 months, which,in the main, bears out his contention. Of the 2500 Germanvisitors in November, 1919, 1000 or more were undergoinginternment and did not, for some reason, figure in the usualreturn. The latest reported number of German visitorsgiven as 867 includes 200 interned men, most of thempatients in the Deutsches Kriegerhaus at the mouth of theDischmathal, as well as 140 or 150 patients in the Deuti-chelieilstatte at Wolfgang. Dr. Bill adds: "As we now see-him, the average German is a very mild edition of his formerself, and the change in the atmosphere of Davos is evenmore noteworthy than the figures suggest."-ED. L.

PORTRAITS OF ANDREAS VESALIUS.

To the Editor of THE LANCET.

SIR,-Being engaged upon a work on the Iconography ofAndreas Vesalius, I should be grateful if you will allow meto appeal to those of your readers with whom I have not.already corresponded on the subject and who own, or know-of, any such portraits, painted or sculptured, to have thekindness to communicate with me. It is believed thatcertain of the portraits which at present are regarded as

untraceable are to be found in institutions, in universities,medical schools, and the like, or in semi-public or private

galleries. I may add that the book, which is to contain allthe accessible portraits of the Father of Modern Anatomy,will be worthily produced under the authority, and with the- support, of the °’ Annals of Medical History."

I am, Sir, yours faithfully,M. H. SPIELMANN.

The Athenæum, Pall Mall, S.W., Nov. 26th, 1919.

MENTALLY DERANGED SOLDIERS IN PAUPERASYLUMS.

To the Editor of THE LANCET.

SIR,-The Parliamentary answer on this subject, reportedon p. 950 of your issue of the 22od, is misleading. The factthat discharged soldiers who become insane are treated asprivate patients in asylums is, of course, all to the good, but,nevertheless, to gain admission to the asylum the unfortunateman has to be certified by the Poor-law medical officer, andgoes in as a pauper. Transferring him to the private patient’sside afterwards does not therefore meet the case.

Is it not possible to amend the law so that an insanepensioner can be treated as an insane serving soldier-i.e.,be admitted (without certification) for observation, certifica-tion only being resorted to later if found to be necessary ?

I am, Sir, yours faithfully,Nov. 24th, 1919. MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT.

THE LATE SIR T. LAUDER BRUNTON.To the Editor of THE LANCET.

SIR,-In response to requests I propose to publish shortlya memoir of the late Sir T. Lauder Brunton. All profits fromthe sale of this book will be given to the sustentation fundof St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. I should be very gratefulfor any communications from old friends of his, or for anyletters of interest written by him. These would be care-fully preserved and returned.

I am, Sir, yours faithfully,7, Poole-road, Bournemouth. THOMAS BODLEY SCOTT.

Medical News.UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.-At a meeting of the

Senate held on Nov. 19th Sir Cooper Perrv was appointedprincipal officer. an appointment which has been in abeyancesince 1915. A resolution was passed expressing apprecia-tion of the Goldsmiths’ Companv in presenting £15,000National War Bonds to the London Hospital Medical Collegefor the endowment of a University Chair of Bacteriology,and intimation was received of a bequest of about £3000 under the will of Mr. T. S. Hughes for the encourage-ment of original medical research in the University. It wasalso announced that the Graham Legacy Committee hadmade their first award of the gold medal to Dr. CharlesBolton, F.R.S., in recognition of original work in experi-mental pathology which he had conducted at the medicalschool of University College Hospital.At examinations held recently the following candidates

were successful :-THIRD (M.B., B.S.) EXAMINATION FOR MEDICAL DEGREES.

Gerald Victor Wright Anderson, Univ. Coll. Hosp. ; Owen DeaneBrownfield. St. Thomas’s Hosp. ; Michael Waldo Boone Bulman,Lon on Hop.; Charles Hugh Colclough B rne, St. Thomas’s Hosp.;Alix Jeanne Churchill, London Sch. of Med. for Women and St.George’s Hosp.; Simeon Moses Cohen, St. Brt ’s Hosp.; RolfCreasy, Guy’s Hosp.; Nora Annie Crow, London Sch. of Med. torWomen; Mary Day ,honours, distinguished in forensic medicineand midwife; y). St. Mary’s Hosp.; Florence Marjory Edwards,London Sch. of Med for Women ; Reginald Stafford Foss, St.T13omma’s Hosp. ; Hinkus Joseph Freilich and John Norman Glaister,Univ. Coll. liosp.: St. George Bernard Delisle Gray, Guy’s Hosp.;Hubert Oliver Gunewardene, King’s Coll. Hosp.; Cyril EdwardHarrison, Middlpsex Hosp.; Henry Nevill Hornibrook, St. Bart.’sHosp. ; Jack Joffe (honours, distinguished in pathology and sur-gery), Guy’s Hosp.; Shankar Ramehandra Jogiekar, Univ. Coil.Hosp.; Rhys Trevor Jones (honou’s, distinguished in medicine,forensic medicine, and surgery, U!oiversity medal), St. George’sHosp.; Samuel Walter Maslen Jones, Middlesex Hosp.; VivianEmrys Jones, Liverpool Univ.; Vasant Ramji Khanolkar, Univ.Cnlt. Hosp.; Hyman Jacob Levy, Univ. Coll.. Cardiff, and St.Bart.’s Hosp.; Naunton Morgan Lewis, Westminster H"sp.; RonaldGuy Lysler, Sr,. Rart.’s Hosp. ; Charles Dundas Maitland, St.Thomas’s H"sp.; Framroz Nanabhov Moos, Univ. CoIl. Hosp. andGrant Med Coll., Bombay; Marie Mathilda Alice Moralt, LondonSch. of Med. for Women; kdit.h Mary Ponsonby Morris, St. Mary’sHosp.; Manek Jamshedji Panthaky, King’s Coll. Hosp.; JohnErnest Pearce, St. Bart.’s Hosp.; George Stuart Bain Philip,Charing Cross Hosp.; Frank Portas (honours, distinguished inpathology), Westminster Hosp.; Dorothy Priestley Priest,ley, LeedsUniv.; Mary Millicent Prior, St. Mary’s Hosp.; William ArthurRichards, Charing Cross Hosp.; John Francis Ryan. St Thomas’sH"sp.; Emmanuel Prinski Scott, London Hosp.; Evelyn DennisScott, Guy’s Hosp.; George Harold Sims, St. Thomas’s Hosp.;Herbert William Southgate, Guy’s Hosp.; Frances MinnieSpicket.t. London Sch. of Merl. for Women; Raymund Theron,London Hosp.; Austin Darley Wall, St. Bart.’s Hosp.; Alfred BasilKeith Warkins (honours, distinguished in medicine and surgery),London Hosp ; Cvril James Berkeley Way, Middlesex Hosp.;John Woollaston Wayte, St. Thomas’s Hosp.; William RonaldWhile-Couper. St. Bart.’s H.’sp.; Alfred Williams Walker, Bir-mingham Umv.; and Arthur Graham Winter, London Hosp.

The following candidates have passed in one of the twogroups of subjects :-Group I.-David William Jabez Andrews. Middlesex Hosp.; MaryRushton Barkas. London Sch. of Med. for Women and St. Mary’sHo.p.; William Wallace King Brown, St. Thomas’s’Hosp.; EnbertAubrey Lennox Crichlow, King’s Coll. Hosp. ; William EdwardKy Coles. Univ. Coll. Hop.; Joyce Emily Craggs, St. Mary’sHopp.; Ernest Ivon Dtvies. Charing Cross Hosp.; Elizabpth C’twperEwes, Sheffield Univ. ; Harold Ellis and Thomas Leslie Ellis, St.George’s Hosp. ; Ronald Kelson Ford, London Hosp.; Graydon

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Oscar Hume, Gny’s Hosp. ; Norah Dorothy Pinkerron. LondonSch. of Med. for Women: Walter Ernest Karl Adolf Quitmann.Univ. Coll. Hosp.; John Augustus Waring Robinson, Kmg’s Coll.Hosp.; and Beriah Melbourne Gwynne Thomas, Univ. Coll.,Carniff, and St. Bart.’s Hopp

Group jTjf. - Christian Frederick Reyers, St. Bart Hosp.; EllaMarianne Brittpn. St. George’s Hosp.; Jacob Brodetsky, LondonH"ap.; John Rtiph Dingley, Univ. Coll. Hosp ; Abel Evans,Charing Cross Hosp ; Algernon Sanders Green, Univ. CoIl. Hosp.;Cecil Edward Eede Herington and Christopher Langton Hewer,St. Bart.’s Hosp.; Eric Clark Hinde. Guy’s Hosp.; Oscar HyamHyman, St. Thomas’s Hosp.; George Edwin Kidman, Guy’s Hosp.;