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W. M. B. and A. J. R. write:"

John Smellie was particularly kind to junior colleagues,and many young consultants owe more than just practice tohim, since he never failed to have a wide variety of well-informed observations on all medical matters from ethics todetailed laboratory investigations. Whatever the subject, hetook care to acquire correct information, and he was the firstto apologise on the rare occasion that he was mistaken. Hehated anything which was pompous, and had no time forthose-however senior they might be-who treated his patientsunkindly. He was an expert on photography, and would delighthis friends at Christmas with prints from favourite negatives,meticulously made with an enlarger which he constructedhimself. His enthusiasm for photography and rose-growingwas matched by the time and energy he gave to the manycommittees on which he served. His shrewd, honest, andforthright opinions enhanced his professional standing overthe years. His serenity in the face of his fatal illness, his interestin the action (and cost) of the drugs he was given, and hisstrong Christian beliefs will remain a vivid memory with thosewho were privileged to know him."

Dr. Smellie is survived by his wife, his son Dr. WilliamSmellie, with whom he had been in partnership for elevenyears, and two daughters who are also doctors.

Diary of the Week

Nov. 15 TO 21Monday, 16thPOSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL, Ducane Road, W.124 P.M. Prof. Alan Kekwick: Disorders of Fatty Tissues.

HUNTERIAN SOCIETY8.30 P.M. (Apothecaries Hall, London, E.C.4.) Dr. Richard Asher,

Mr. Guy Warrack (for); Dr. Harvey Flack, Mr. Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (against); That Education of the Public in MedicalMatters is to be Deprecated.

UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS4 P.M. (Department of Medicine, Queen’s College, Dundee.) Mr. W. F.

Walker and Dr. H. G. Morgan: Electrolyte Disturbances fromAbdominal Operations.

Tuesday, 17thROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON, Pall Mall East, S.W.1

5 P.M. Sir Kenneth Clark: Art and Society. (Lloyd-Roberts lecture.)ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C.2

5 P.M. Mr. R. L. Huckstep: Recent Advances in the Surgery of TyphoidFever. (Hunterian lecture.)

BRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL FEDERATION5.30 P.M. (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel

Street, W.C.I.) Dr. C. E. Dalgliesh: Biochemical Aspects ofDisorders of Aminoacid Metabolism.

ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, Paddington, W.25 P.M. Mr. Geoffrey Barber: Obstetrics in General Practice.

POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL4 P.M. Dr. E. H. Belcher: Isotope Dilution Analysis.

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL COLLEGE, Millbank, S.W.15 P.M. Dr. J. St. Clair Elkington: Carotid and Basilar Insufficiency.

INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, Lisle Street, W.C.25.30 P.M. Dr. G. C. Wells: Histochemistry of the Skin.

LEEDS NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM5.15 P.M. (General Infirmary at Leeds.) Sir Charles Symonds: Observa-

tions on the Facilitation or Arrest of Epileptic Seizures.UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

5.15 P.M. (New Medical School) Mr. R. I. Stirling: The Mutability ofLiving Bone. (Lady Jones lecture.)

Wednesday, 18thUNIVERSITY OF LONDON

5.30 P.M. (King’s College, Strand, W.C.2.) Prof. Alfred Gilman (NewYork): Pharmacological Basis of Diuretic Drug Therapy.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole Street, W.18.15 P.M. General Practice. Dr. Annis Gillie, Dr. T. N. Rudd, Dr. E.

Beresford Davies: The Ageing Mind.POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL

2 P.M. Prof. C. E. Dent: Balance Tests.INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY

5.30 P.M. Dr. J. A. Dudgeon: Virus Diseases.INSTITUTE OF DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Brompton, S.W.3

5 P.M. Mr. T. Holmes Sellors: Pulmonary Stenosis.ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HYGIENE, 28, Portland Place, W.1

3.30 P.M. Dr. J. Greenwood Wilson: Work of the Port of London HealthAuthority.

LONDON AMATEUR BOXING ASSOCIATION8 P.M. (British Railways Film Unit, 25, Savile Row, W.1.) Stress and the

Adaptation Syndrome. (Film.)HARVEIAN SOCIETY OF LONDON, 11, Chandos Street, W.1

8.15 P.M. Prof. Alexander Haddow: Chemotherapy of Cancer.

EUGENICS SOCIETY5.30 P.M. (Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W.I.) Dr. A. E.

Mourant: Blood Groups in the Study of Human Populations.QUAKER MEDICAL SOCIETY

8 P.M. (Friends House, Euston Road, N.W.1.) Mr. Robert Roaf: Death onthe Roads-Do We Care? (Lister lecture.)

ROYAL FACULTY OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, 242, St. Vincent Street,Glasgow, C.2

5 P.M. Prof. Albert Hemingway: Pumps and Pressures. (Lock lecture.)UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS

2.30 P.M. (Department of Medicine, Queen’s College, Dundee.) Dr.H. G. Morgan: Metabolism of Calcium and Bone.

Thursday, 19thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND

5 P.M. Dr. L. W. Proger: Recent Additions to the Museum. (ErasmusWilson demonstration.)

ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE4.45 P.M. Dermatology. Mr. Henry Hobbs: Ocular Lesions after Chloro-

qum Therapy.BRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL FEDERATION

5.30 P.M. (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.) Dr. M. D.Milne: Clinical Aspects of Disorders of Aminoacid Metabolism.

POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL4 P.M. Dr. T. Alper, Dr. M. Ebert, Dr. R. H. Thomlinson: Biological

Effects of Radiation.BRITISH INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGY, 32, Welbeck Street, W.I

8 P.M. Dr. R. 0. Murray: Skeletal Changes Associated with SteroidTherapy.

NUFFIELD ORTHOPEDIC CENTRE8.30 P.M. (Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Hospital, Oxford.) Dr. A.

Lichtwitz: Laboratory and Clinical Diagnosis of GeneralisedOsteopathies.

LIVERPOOL MEDICAL INSTITUTION, 114, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, 38 P.M. Prof. L. J. Witts: The Small Intestine in Clinical Medicine.

HONYMAN GILLESPIE LECTURE5 P.M. (University New Buildings, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, 8.) Mr. Eric

Samuel: Radiology of Arterial Disease.

Friday, 20thROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE

5.30 P.M. Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. Prof. C. P. Beattie,Dr. J. K. A. Beverley, Dr. G. B. Ludlam: Epidemiology of Toxo-plasmosis.

8.15 P.M. Radiology. Dr. Eric Samuel, Dr. Philip Keates: Use of ContrastMedia in the Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen. Mr. H. DendyMoore: Radiology in the Acute Abdomen.

POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL10 A.M. Mr. A. J. H. Rains: Biliary Calculus-a Review of Research.4 P.M. Dr. J. F. Goodwin: Pulmonary Hypertension.

FACULTY OF RADIOLOGISTS4.30 P.M. (Royal College of Surgeons of England.) Sir Charles Dodds:

Reflections on Cancer Research. (Crookshank lecture.)INSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY, 330, Gray’s Inn Road, W.C.1

5.30 P.M. Dr. R. E. 0. Williams: Epidemiology of Respiratory Infectionsin Hospitals.

INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY, NATIONAL HOSPITAL, Queen Square, W.C.14.45 P.M. Dr. Macdonald Critchley: Evolution of Man’s Capacity for

Language.BRITISH TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION

5 P.M. (26, Portland Place, W.1.) Dr. J. G. Scadding: On Keeping theRules (Presidential address). Dr. Ian Sutherland: Present Scopefor Preventing Tuberculosis by Vaccination of School Leavers.

PLYMOUTH MEDICAL SOCIETY8.30 P.M. (Freedom Fields.) Lord Taylor: The Future of General

Practice.

AppointmentsEvANS, J. L., M.B. Lond., D.OBST., D.P.H. : deputy M.O.H. and school M.o.,

Swindon.MCKENZIE, W. S., M.B. Cantab., F.R.C.S. : honorary consultant surgeon,

E.N.T. department, French Hospital and Dispensary, London.TATTERSALL, GILBERT, M.B. Dubl., D.P.H.: assistant M.O. and M.O.H.,

Nottinghamshire (East Retford).

Birmingham Regional Hospital Board :BENNETT, R. J., M.B. Birm., F.R.C.S. : part-time consultant E.N.T. surgeon,

Stoke-on-Trent group of hospitals.CREWS, S. J., M.B. Cantab., F.R.C.S.E.: part-time consultant ophthal-

mologist, Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital.DATTA, P. K., M.B. Calcutta: senior casualty officer, Dudley and Stour-

bridge group of hospitals.GRAVES, F. T., M.S. Lond., F.R.c.s.: part-time consultant surgeon,

Stafford group of hospitals.LANGTON, LEONARD, M.D. Leeds, M.R.C.P., F.F.R., D.M.R.D.: consultant

radiologist, Birmingham (Dudley Road) group of hospitals.MUNRO, S. S. F., M.B. Aberd., D.O.M.S. : part-time consultant ophthal-

mologist, Hereford group of hospitals.RUBINSTEIN, KAZIMIERZ, M.D. Beirut, F.R.C.S.E., D.O.M.S. : part-time

consultant ophthalmologist, Birmingham (Dudley Road), (Mental C),(Mental E), and (Sanatoria) groups of hospitals.

TOPLEY, ELIZABETH, M.D. Lond.: deputy director, regional bloodtransfusion service.

Manchester Regional Hospital Board :BLISS, RAYMOND, M.B. Edin., D.A.: assistant anaesthetist (S.H.M.O.), Bolton

and district group of hospitals.EvANS, VINCENT, M.B. N.U.I., D.A.: assistant anxsthetist (S.H.M.O.), North

Manchester group of hospitals.HAJIKAKOU, C. S., M.B. Manc.: senior casualty officer, Rochdale and

district group of hospitals.SMITH, J. P., M.D. Mane.: consultant pathologist, Christie Hospital and

Holt Radium Institute.