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Westminster Medical School

On Monday, Oct. 12, at, 3 P.M., at Church House, GroatSmith Street, London, S.W.1, Lord Radcliffe, P.c., will givethe inaugural address of the 1953-54 session.

King’s College Hospital Medical School, LondonOn Friday, Oct. 2, at 3 P.M., Mr. lain Macleod, the Minister

of Health, will deliver the inaugural address at the openingof the session at the medical school, Denmark Hill, S.E.5.

Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, LondonMiss G. E. M. Jebb will deliver the inaugural address on

Friday, Oct. 2, at 3 P.M., at the Senate House, University ofLondon, W.C.1. Her subject is to be the University Studentin the World Today.Royal Medico- Psychological Association

Lord Jowitt will deliver the Maudsley lecture at I, WimpoleStreet, London, W.l, on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 2.15 P.M. Hewill speak on Medicine and the Law.London College of OsteopathyA postgraduate course for registered medical practitioners

will begin in October. Particulars may be had from the

secretary of the college, 25, Dorset Square, N.W.I.British Association

Prof. E. D. Adrian, o.M., P.R.S., has been elected president ofthe association for next year, when the annual meeting will beheld in Oxford.

British Postgraduate Medical FederationOn Thursday, Oct. 8, at 5.30 P.M., at the Senate House,

University of London, Malet Street, W.C.1, Sir Henry Dale,o.M., F.R.s., is to give the inaugural address of the 1953—54series of lectures on the Scientific Basis of Medicine. He is to

speak on Scientific Method in Medical Research.International Congress of Clinical Pathology

This congress will be held from Sept. 6 to 11, 1934. in

Washington, D.C. Further particulars may be had fromDr. Robert A. Moore, Washington University School ofMedicine, 660, South Kingshighway, Saint Louis, 10, Missouri,U.S.A.

Institute of Dermatology, LondonThe winter course, for which no charge is being made this

year, begins on Oct. 2. Systematic lectures will be givenon Tuesdays and clinical demonstrations on Fridays ; lecturesand demonstrations on pathology, including medical mt-co-logy, on Wednesdays and Thursdays ; and lectures on

X-ray techniques on some Wednesdays.B.M.A. Scholarships and PrizesThe council of the British Medical Association is offering

an Ernest Hart scholarship (£250) and a Walter Dixon

scholarship (£250) to candidates qualified to undertakeresearch in any subject (including State medicine) relatingto the causation, prevention, or treatment of disease. Applica-tion must be made not, later than March 1, 1954, and furtherparticulars may be had from the secretary of the association,B.M.A. House, Tavistock Square, London, W.C.1.The council is also offering during 1954 a Nathaniel Bishop

Harman prize (£100) for an essay submitted by a consultilntmember of the staff or senior hospital medical officer of a

hospital in Great Britain or Northern Ireland who is not amember of the staff of a recognised undergraduate or post-graduate medical school. Further particulars may be had fromthe secretary of the association, and essays should be submittednot later than March 31.

Rations for ExpeditionsThe Nutrition Society is holding a symposium with the

Royal Geographical Society at the Royal GeographicalSociety’s rooms, Kensington Gore, London, S.W.7, on Monday,Oct. 26, at 2.30 P.M. on the Provisioning of Expeditions inthe Field. Sir Edward Mellanby, F.R.S., will be in the chair ;and the speakers will include Mr. G. C. L. Bertram, PH.D. (whowill speak on Polar Rations), Prof. R. A. McCance, F.R.s., andDr. G. R. Hervey (Emergency Rations), Prof. B. S. Platt,and Dr. R. H. Fox (Tropical Expeditions), Dr. L. G. C. E.Pugh (Himalayan Mountaineering), Dr. H. G. Smith (ArmyOperational Rations), and Squadron-Loader D. G. V. Whit-tingham (R.A.F. Emergency Rations). Further particularsmay be obtained from the Programmes Secretary of theNutrition Society, Mr. R. J. L. Allen, c/o Monkhouse &Glasscock Ltd., Snowsfields, S.E.I.

Biochemical SocietyA meeting of this society is to be hold on Friday, Sept. 18,

at I A.M., at the Medical School, Leeds.

International Organisation against TrachomaDr. P. Bailliart (France and Prof. G. B. Bietti (Italy)

have been elected to the newly created posts of vice-presidentsof this body. Prof. Arnold Sorsby (Great Britain) has beenelected secretary-general in place of Prof. Mulock Houwer,who has resigned. Dr. Maxwoll Lyons (W.H.O.), Dr. PhillipsThygeson (U.S.A.), and Dr. Busacca (Brazil) have been electedadditional members of the council.

Sculptures in a Children’s WardAn exhibition of mobile sculptures by Kenneth Martin,

will be held in ward 17 of the Highgate wing of WhittingtonHospital, London, N.19, from Sept. 25 to Oct. 16 (weekdays,2-4 P.M.). Admission is ly- ticket, obtainable from thechildren’s department at the wing.

St. Luke’s Day Service .

A service for doctors is t.o be held on St. Luke’s day, Sunday,Oct’; 18, at 11 A.M., in All Souls’ Church, Langham Place,London, W.1. The president of the Royal College of Physiciansand the president of the Royal College of Obstetricians andGynaecologists are to read the lessons, and the preacher willbe the Rev. J. R. W. Stott, the rector of All Souls. Seatswill be reserved for doctors and members of their families whoapply for tickets to the secretary. All Souls’ Church House,Langham Place, W.1, by Oct. 15.

Medical StatisticsThe first meeting for the 1953-54 session of the study

circle on medical statistics of the Royal Statistical Societywill be held at 6.45 P.M. on Tuesday, Sept. 29, in the West-minster Medical School, Horseferry Road, London, S.W.1,when Dr. V. H. Springett will read a paper on follow-upproblems in tuberculosis. During the session the circle willmeet on the last Tuesday of the month. Further informationmay be had from Miss M. Landreth, Gordon Hospital,Vauxhall Bridge Road, S.W.1.

Charles Darwin MemorialThe British Association for the Advancement of Science

announce that the custody of the national memorial to CharlesDarwin at Down House in Kent has been transferred to the

Royal College of Surgeons of England.Charles Darwin lived at Down Ilouse from 1842 till his deathin

1882, and it was there that he wrote the Origin of Species. In 1927Sir Buckston Browne bought the property and restored it; and,with the help of many people, including members of the Darwinfamily, he collected for display in the public rooms many relicsconnected with Darwin. The property and its contents were

presented to the British Association : and the memorial was openedto the public in 1929.

A Service OccasionOn Aug. 28, during the visit of Sir Stanford Cade, civil

consultant in surgery to the Royal Air Force and hon. consultant in radiotherapy to the Army, and of Air CommodoreF. W. P. Dixon, R.A.F. consultant in surgery, a meeting of160 medical officers of the three Services was held at theBritish Military Hospital, Fayid. Seven clinical cases were

presented, and a demonstration was given of a method ofmass inoculation which has recentlv been introduced into theCanal Zone. Sir Stanford Cade afterwards spoke on the pro-gress of medical science in the last thirty years in thetreatment of malignant disease.

Mr. St. J. D. Buxton is visiting Greece at the invitation of Unitedrations as social welfare adviser.

The report of the conference on The Family which was held inLondon from April 15 to 18 has now been published. Copies(as. 6d.) may be obtained from the National Council of SocialService, 26, Bedford Square, London, W.C.1.

The World-Atlas of Epidemic Diseases (see Lancet, 1953, i, 528)can now he obtained in this country from Barmerlea Books Sales,Ltd., 10, Bayley Street, Bedford Square, London, W.C.I. Vol. Icosts R: 19 10s.

Births, Marriages, and DeathsBIRTHS

FRANKENBERG—On Sept. 1, at the Weir Maternity Hospital, toMioko (née Van Tricht), wife of John Frankenberg, M.R.C.O.G.- a daughter.