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The lamp has been thoroughly tested. It has been found

particularly helpful in operations deep in the thorax, theabdomen, or the pelvis; it is usually best used in conjunctionwith normal overhead lighting, and sometimes only for quiteshort periods during an operation. It has also found favourwith ophthalmic surgeons, and it has been in constant use incasualty departments. The spotlight is always in focus, is verybright, and is astonishingly easy to manoeuvre.

This spotlight may be obtained from Messrs. Herbert Terry andSons Ltd., Redditch, or theii agents.

University of LondonThe board of governors of Queen Charlotte’s Hospital and

the Chelsea Hospital for Women have set aside 50,000 oftheir endowment funds for the endowment of a chair ofobstetrics and gynaecology at the Institute of Obstetrics andGynaecology.University of LeedsAt recent examinations the following were successful:M.B., Ch.B.-Margaret Barber, Pauline Bittiner, Norman Carr, Frank

Carter, Margaret E. Coles, A. J. K. Dore, M. W. Flowers, Gillian M. Foster,R. D. Jackson, J. N. Lambton, P. B. Pickles, Stanley Sorkin, Freda M.Tomlinson, B. K. Turnbull, R. K. Wright.D.P.M.-John Blackburn, Margaret W. Galley, Mary Jones, H. B. Kidd,

J. T. Rose, Brian Ward.

University of LiverpoolDr. K. McCarthy and Dr. K. R. Dumbell have been

appointed senior lecturers in bacteriology, and Dr. J. L.Braithwaite and Dr. E. W. Macmillan senior lecturers in

anatomy.

University of ManchesterAt a recent examination the following were successful:M.B., Ch.B.-J. W. Aspinall, Roy Battye, F. H. Brindle, D. B. Brookes,

J. E. Brooks, A. L. Buckley, Eric Charles, P. J. Cox, J. S. Cumming, BarryDeakin, B. H. Delany, G. G. Duckworth, R. M. Flinn, Joyce Harris, RoyHaworth, Patricia A. Hegarty, Raymond Holmes, Alexander Hopkins,W. H. Isbister, Maria Z. Kozubowska, R. J. Lawton, I. P. McEwan, A. C.Peterson, J. D. Rhodes, P. H. Roberts, Martin Ryan, Elizabeth M. Spencer,Roy Statham, Garo Tahta, Peter Watson, J. M. Watts, B. K. Wignall,J. D. G. Williams, S. K. Wood, P. B. Wrigglesworth.

Queen’s University, BelfastDr. T. K. Marshall has been appointed to a lectureship in

pathology (forensic medicine).Royal College of Surgeons of England

Faculty of Anaesthetists.-Dr. G. S. W. Organe has beenelected dean of the faculty for the coming year, and Prof. E. A.Pask vice-dean.

Royal College of Physicians of EdinburghDr. Jessie Macgregor prize for medical women.-An award

of this prize, competition for which is open to women who aregraduates in medicine of the University of Edinburgh or whohave taken the Scottish triple qualification, will be made inNovember to the applicant who presents the best record oforiginal work in the science of medicine. Applications mustreach the Convener of Trustees, Royal College of Physicians,9, Queen Street, Edinburgh, 2, by Oct. 31.

British Association of Urological SurgeonsThe following have been elected officers and members of

council for 1958-59:

President, Mr. Arthur Jacobs; immediate past-president, Mr.R. H. 0. B. Robinson; vice-president, Mr. Hugh Donovan; hon.treasurer, Prof. V. W. Dix; hon. secretary, Mr. J. D. Fergusson;hon. editorial secretary, Mr. N. M. Matheson; members of council,Mr. F. R. Kilpatrick, Mr. W. S. Mack, Mr. T. J. Millin, Mr. R. A.Mogg, Mr. D. S. Poole-Wilson, Mr. N. L. Shepperd, Mr. J. Swinney,and Mr. D. Innes Williams; and (ex officio) the president of theSection of Urology of the Royal Society of Medicine and the chairmanof the editorial committee of the British -7ournal of Urology.International Congress on the Modern Educational

Treatment of Deafness

This congress will be held at the University of Manchesterfrom July 15 to 23. Further particulars may be had fromMr. D. M. C. Dale, department of education of the deaf, theUniversity, Manchester, 13.

British Medical Association

Dain Fund.-During 1957-58 the Fund has spent E2300 ingrants, helping 23 cases including 7 new ones. Nearly everychild needs help over a period of years, and, as school fees aremounting and the help required increases, subscribers are

asked to continue their support and to enlist the support ofothers.

Dr. J. A. Fraser Roberts has been elected president of the RoyalAnthropological Society.Dr. Brian MacMahon has been appointed professor of epidemio-

logy at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Alex Comfort and Dr. D. S. McLaren are among those whohave received this year Ciba awards for research on the problems ofageing.A meeting of the Society for General Microbiology will be held

in the University of Liverpool on Sept. 18 and 19. Further particularsmay be had from Dr. B. W. Lacey, department of bacteriology,Westminster Medical School, London, S.W.I.

Caution-be Warned in Rhyme.-Mr. Edmund Quarry, theeditor of Better Health, has for the past ten years offered his readerspills of good advice in the jam of light verse. His good-naturedadmonishments have now been collected in a small book (London:Hodgetts. Pp. 65. 4s. 6d.) which he has illustrated himself.

CORRIGENDUM : Billy Goes to Hospital.-We apologise to Prof.R. S. Illingworth and to those readers who were perplexed by lastweek’s reference (p. 1399) to his article " on another page of thisissue ". Our note about the Guy’s booklet was to have appearedwith Professor Illingworth’s paper, which will be published soon.

Diary of the Week

JULY 6 TO 12Sunday, 6thUNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL, Gower Street, W.C.1

10.15 A.M. Dr. H. A. Burt: Backache, its Prevention and Treatment.

Monday, 7thUNIVERSITY OF LONDON

5 P.M. (St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, Norfolk Place, W.2.) Prof.Gerrit Bras (Jamaica): Veno-occlusive Disease of the Liver.

Tuesday, 8thROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON, Pall Mall East, S.W.1

5 P.M. Sir Lindor Brown: Mode of Action of Sympathetic Nerves.(Bertram Louis Abrahams lecture.)

INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH, The Hospital for Sick Children, Great OrmondStreet, W.C.1

5 P.M. Dr. David Gitlin (Boston): Plasma Protein Metabolism in theNephrotic Syndrome.

INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY, Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, S.E.55 P.M. Prof. George Rosen (New York): Social Stress and Mental

Diseases in the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries.

Wednesday, 9thPOSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL, Ducane Road, W.12

2 P.M. Dr. George Belyavin: Serology of the Influenza Viruses.

Thursday, 10thROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON

5 P.M. Prof. P. B. Medawar: The Biology of Ageing. (F. E. Williamslecture.)

AppointmentsMcARTHUR, MARY I., M.B. Edin., D.P.H.: assistant M.o., South Buckingham-

shire area.WILD, DAVID, M.B. Manc., D.OBST.: assistant divisional M.o., Eccles (near

Manchester) area.WRIGHT, J. T., D.M. Oxon., M.R.C.P. : consultant physician, London Hospital,

Whitechapel.East Anglian Regional Hospital Board:DAS, N., M.B. Calcutta, D.T.M. & H., D.G.O.: registrar in obstetrics and

gynaecology. West Norfolk and King’s Lynn General Hospital.DOCKERY, PATRICIA J., M.B. Dubl., D.C.H.: psediatric registrar, Ipswich and

East Suffolk Hospital.Gissorr, R. H., M.B. Cantab.: radiological registrar, Norfolk and Norwich

Hospital.GIBSON, D. S., M.B.Melb.: surgical registrar, West Suffolk General

Hospital.

Oxford Regional Hospital Board:CAREY, R. W., M.B. Dubl., D.O.: part-time consultant ophthalmologist,

Oxford/Banbury area.Moss, JOHN, M.B. Birm., D.O.: part-time consultant ophthalmologist,

Aylesbury/High Wycombe area.PALMER, J. R., M.B. Lond., D.P.M.: assistant psychiatrist (S.H.M.O.), Fair

Mile Hospital, near Wallingford, Berkshire.