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Balfour-was a member of the army’s medical advisorycommittee, and during one of his tours of inspectionhe was most impressed by Major Daukes’s work. Thisvisit determined Daukes’s career, for in 1919 Balfourinvited him to the Wellcome Museum of TropicalMedicine. As curator he threw himself into the work ofsimplifying and extending the museum, and in 1926the scope of the work was changed. The museumbecame the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science, andhe was appointed its first director. The expansion of the museum was rapid and it attracted

official attention. Daukes was made organising secretaryof the committee which planned the demonstration oftropical diseases included in the Government pavilion atthe Wembley Exhibition in 1924. In the following yearthe Ministry of Health added a further section on homehygiene and disease prevention to the exhibition whichDaukes also organised, and a similar exhibit was sentto Antwerp in 1929 and to Paris in 1931.

Dr. Daukes revolutionised medical museums. In hiswork he emphasised that the modern medical museumshould not be set up on purely pathological lines ; itshould embrace aetiology, bacteriology, clinical features,treatment, and prevention. He arranged the WellcomeMuseum by diseases, and dealt under each headingwith all these features, using paintings, photographs,pathological specimens, temperature charts, and X-rayphotographs. He recognised that both the clinician andthe student depend on sight more than on any othersense in gaining their impressions. In 1928 he obtainedhis M.D. for a thesis on the medical museum, and in thefollowing year he expanded it to form an importantmonograph. ’

Under his guidance the Wellcome Museum of MedicalScience assumed an important place in the postgraduateteaching of doctors about to go abroad, and in thetraining of medical students, and nursing and lay workers.During the year before the war, some 10,000 personsvisited the museum, and regular teaching classes werefrequently held in it. No small part of its success wasdue to the care with which Daukes provided abstracts ofthe current literature on each disease in their appropriatebays. He was for some years secretary of the Britishsection of the International Association of MedicalMuseums. After the death of Sir Henry Wellcome,Dr. Daukes in 1940 took over the directorship of theHistorical Medical Museum for the war period. Heretired from his active connexion with the two museumsat the end of 1945.In the novels, which he wrote under the pseudonym

of " Sidney Fairway," Daukes made good use of hisvaried experiences in the medical profession. He wrotein all thirteen novels, and the last, He Loved Freedom,was published about a week before his death. Of hisothers the best known are The Doctor’s Defence andThe Cuckoo in Harley Street.

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Dr. Daukes was twice married, and he is survived byhis widow and a son by his first marriage, Lieut.-ColonelWhitfield Daukes, R.A.M.C.

THEODOR FROLICHOuR Norwegian correspondent writes : The announce-

ment of the death of Professor Frolich on Aug. 14brings one back with a jerk to the early years of thiscentury when the very word vitamin was unknown andsuch diseases as scurvy were attributed to some obscureprocess of food-poisoning. This was the state of affairswhen Nansen and his medical advisers hoped to combatscurvy by the effective sterilisation of preserved foods.Prof. Axel Holst had the temerity to challenge theirviews, and in conjunction with Frolich he investigatedexperimental scurvy in guineapigs. Their first publica,:-tion on the subject in 1907 was followed by other papers,and their spade-work in this field did much to providea solid foundation for work on vitamin C. Frolich’scontribution to this and other research ranked so highin the opinion of his Norwegian colleagues that theyrecommended him (unsuccessfully, alas) for a Nobelprize in 1938. His work on tuberculosis led to hiselection as president of the Norwegian National Associa-tion against Tuberculosis from 1928 to 1937, and whenthe International Union against Tuberculosis held itsCongress in Oslo in 1930 he was its president.

Parliament

ON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE

IN August the House of Commons chose to adopt theprocedure of adjournment rather than prorogation tocover the recess. This means that Parliament-Houseof Commons and House of Lords together--can, ifrequired, be summoned at the shortest possible notice.But the peers did not accept this arrangement, becauseof their opposition to the extension of powers takenby the amended Supplies and Services Act. They fearedthat new Statutory Rules and Orders embodying widepowers of almost drastic description would be broughtin under the Act, and accordingly decided to adjournonly till Sept. 9. But when they met on that dateLord Salisbury said the unforeseen had happened. Themost far-reaching action was feared, but no-one thought" that no important Orders at all would be made.That however appears to be the position."Having met, the Lords prepared to discuss the state

of the nation. But the Government took the view thatthey could not make a statement to one House alonewhen they did not think it necessary to summon both,and the debate fizzled out.This meeting is interesting as a milestone in the history

of the relation of Lords and Commons. The Lords canbe valuable as a revising chamber and may continuethis role for a long time in the future. But that is all.That is not to say that the House of Lords is dying.It is still a vigorous part of the constitutional machineryof the country, and of course it still discharges judicialfunctions of the highest order and greatest value. Andit may well be that in the growth of complex legislation,which is inevitable, whichever party is in power, thatthe consultative and revising functions of the Lords-in a way parallel with the judicial functions-may beextended. MEDICU8, M.P.

Births, Marriages, and DeathsBIRTHS

BALLANTYNE.-On Sept. 5, the wife of Dr. J. L. Ballantyne—aB daughter.

BEATTIE.-On Sept. 4, the wife of Dr. Peter H. Beattie-a son.BILLIG.-On Sept. 8, in London, the wife of Dr. David Billig—

a son.

BOYLE.—On Sept. 8, the wife of Mr. Tom McM. Boyle, F.R.c.s.-a.daughter.

CARTWRIGHT.—On Sept 8, at Ilminster, Somerset, the wife ofDr. W. H. Cartwright-a daughter.

FARQUHARSON.-On Sept. 8, at Boscombe, Bournemouth, the wifeof Dr. E. Farquharson—a son.

HICKS.—On Sept. 5, in London, the wife of Surgeon LieutenantFrederick N. Hicks, R.N.V.R.—a son.

HOUSTON.-On Sept. 9, in London, to Dr. Thelma C. Houston, wifeof Dr. James C. Houston-a son.

McAFEE.--On Sept. 2, at West Kirby, the wife of Dr. Lewis McAfee—a daughter.

STEPTOE.—On Sept. 8, in London, the wife of Dr. Patrick Steptoe-a daughter.

TROUP.—On Sept. 11, at Eastbourne, the wife of Dr. W’. D. G.Troup-a son.

VICKERS.—On Sept. 6, the wife of Dr. H. R. Vickers-a daughter.YARROW.—On Sept. 10, at Sevenoaks, the wife of Dr. Dudley

Yarrow-a daughter.

MARRIAGESCUMMING—WILLIAMS.—On Sept. 4, at Coventry, Robert Alexander

Cumming, o.B.E., M.B., to Marion Williams.GLADSTONE—ANDERSON.—On Sept. 9, at Wembley, Gareth

Gladstone, M.B., to Eileen Marjorie Anderson.HARGRAVE—WILSON—MURE.—On Sept. 5. at Mombasa, William

Hargrave-Wilson, M.R.C.S., to Diana Melicent Mure.JACKSON—FENTON.—On Sept. 6, at Battle, P. B. Jackson, surgeon

commander R.N., to- E. L. Fenton.PEARSON—KING.—On Sept. 6, at Northwood, R. Antony O’Grady

Pearson, M.B., to Monica Seymour King, S.r,.N.. S.C.M.SALE—BADDELEY.—On Sept. 10, in Mlanje, Nyasaland, John’

Colbourne Sale to Margaret Mary Baddeley. Ai.ii.c.s.STEWART—OKELL.—On Sept.’6, in London, Walter Stewart, M.B.E.,

lieut.-colonel R.A.M.C., to Dorothy Mary Okell.

DEATHSCOLECLOUGH.—On Sept. 7, at Shawford, Winchester, John Arthur

Coleclough, M.D. Durh., aged 85.JACKSON.-On Sept. 8, Thomas Leonard Jackson, B.A.. M.B. Camb.LINDSAY.—On Sept. 5, at Leatherhead, Eric Craigie Lindsay,

M.R.C.S.MOORE.—On Sept. 10, at Worthing, James York Moore, O.B.E.,

nr.R.c.s., late R.A.M.C., aged 56.SARJANT.-On Sept. 9, at Leamington Spa, Frank Percy Sarjant,

M.B. Lond., aged 87.SAUNDERS.—On Sept. 8, at Lewes, E. Arthur Saunders, M.A.,

B.M. Oxfd, F.R.C.P., n.P.H., aged 81.