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Advisory Council on the Treatment of OffendersThe Home Secretary has appointed Dr. Denis Carroll to

be a member of this council in place of Dr. Emanuel Miller,who has resigned.

Institute of AlmonersAt the annual general meeting of this institute, which is

to be held on Friday, March 26, at 6 P.M., at B.M.A. House,Tavistock Square, London, W.C.1, Prof. Leslie Banks will

speak on Clients and Patients.

Guillebaud CommitteeThe closing date for the submission of written evidence to

this committee is June 30. Anyone wishing to submit amemorandum should send it before that date to the secretaryof the committee (Mr. E. Halliday), Ministry of Health,Savile Row, London, W.1.

Bristol Medical Exhibition

The annual regional exhibition of the London MedicalExhibition is to be held this year at Victoria Rooms, BristolUniversity, from May 17 to 21. It will be opened by Prof.C. Bruce Perry. Tickets may be had from the British &Colonial Druggist Ltd., 194, Bishopsgate, London, E.C.2.

Silliman Lectures

Prof. Ragnar Granit, director of the department of neuro-physiology of the Medical Nobel Institute, at Stockholm, is togive the Silliman lectures for 1954 at Yale University, onApril 29 and 30, and May 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. He has chosenas his subject Receptors and Sensory Perception. ThisSilliman series will mark the 50th anniversary of Sir CharlesSherrington’s lectures on the Integrative Action of theNervous System.

Standards of Social SecurityThe Government propose to ratify a convention (No. 102)

on minimum standards of social security which was adoptedby the International Labour Conference in 1952. The conven-tion lays down general requirements in nine branches of socialsecurity—medical care, benefit for sickness, unemployment,old age, employment injury, family, maternity, invalidity,and survivors. For each of these branches minimum standardsas to the proportion of workpeople or of the population whomust be protected are laid down and conditions for receivingbenefit and the duration of benefit are specified. Theconvention also specifies the minimum rates of social-securitybenefits. The law and practice of the United Kingdom arein accord with the general requirements of the convention.

Royal Commission on Mental LawsThe Royal Commission on the Law relating to Mental

Illness and Mental Deficiency is now ready to receive evidenceon subjects within its terms of reference, which are :"To inquire, as regards England and Wales, into the existing law

and administrative machinery governing the certification, detention,care (other than hospital care or treatment under the NationalHealth Service Acts, 1946-52), absence on trial or licence, dischargeand supervision of persons who are or are alleged to be sufferingfrom mental illness or mental defect, other than Broadmoor patients ;to consider, as regards England and Wales, the extent to which itis now, or should be made, statutorily possible for such persons tobe treated, as voluntary patients, without certification ; and tomake recommendations."

Anyone who wishes to submit evidence should send a memo-randum in writing to the secretary of the Royal Commissionat 23, Savile Row, London, W.1.

Biological WarfareThe Minister of Supply, Mr. Duncan Sandys, has issued the

following statement :During and since the war, successive Governments have had to

consider methods of defence against all possible forms of attack,including even such forms as biological warfare which are expresslyforbidden by the rules of war. Her Majesty’s Government cannotneglect consideration of the precautions which would need to betaken should this form of warfare ever be applied against us. Inrecent years trials have been carried out off the coast of Scotland toobtain the technical data on which those precautions should bebased.

It has been decided that certain further trials should be carriedout in 1954 in Bahamas waters, where the climate and other circum-stances are much more suitable. The area chosen is far out to sea,at least twenty miles from any inhabited island, and is widelyremoved from any normal shipping route. This decision has beentaken after full consultation with, and with the full cooperation of,the local authorities.

Britain-China Friendship AssociationAt a meeting of this society on Wednesday, March 24, at

45, Russell Square, London, W.C.1, at 7.30 P.M., Dr. HoraceJoules will speak on Social Medicine in China.

A memorial service for the late Dr. Gerald Horner, formereditor of the British Medical Journal, is to be held at St.Pancras Church, London, on Friday, March 26, at NOON.

Sir John Parsons, P.R.C.S.. F.R.S., has been elected an honorarymember of the Illuminating Engineering Society.

The London Medical Orchestra, with Dr. H. Ucko as conductor,will give its first musical evening at B.M.A. House, TavietockSquare, W.C.1, on April 3, at 8 P.M.

CORRIGENDUM : United Nations and World Population.—In ourannotation last week we spoke of "the conference on world popula-tion which the United Nations is holding in Sweden next September,"This conference is in fact to be held in Rome. Our reference to Dr.Evang’s paper should have read Eugen. Rev. 1954, 45, 247.

AppointmentsBISHOP, J. B., T.D., B.M. Oxfd : S.H.M.O., Broadmoor Institution,

Crowthorne.BLOMFIELD, L. B., M.R.C.S., D.PHYS.MED. : hon. physician, French

Hospital and Dispensary, London.EvArrs, ANNIE, M.B., B.SC. Wales : asst. M.o., Newport, Mon.HANDY, ROBERT, M.B. Lond. : asst. county nt.o. and deputy M.o.B..

borough of High Wycombe, and Marlow urban and Wycomberural districts.

HouGHTON, E. A. W., M.B. Brist.: medical registrar, SouthmeadHospital, Bristol.

KNAPMAN, W. B., M.R.C.S.: part-time psychiatrist, Bowden House,Harrow.

LUMEY, J. L. J., M.B. Edin. : senior registrar, Broadmoor Institution, Crowthorne.

MACARTHUR, PATRICK, M.D. Glasg., F.R.F.P.S., D.C.H.: consultant’paediatrician. Northern Regional Hospital Board.

ROGERS, W. J. B., M.B. Camb., D.P.M.: whole-time consultantchild psychiatrist, Crichton Royal, Dumfries.

SLEIGH, BEATRICE E., M.B. Mane., D.A.: anaesthetic registrar.Frenchay Hospital, Bristol.

WILLIAMS, NORMAN, M.B. Lond., D.P.H., D.I.H.: s.M.o., East 3fid-lands Gas Board.

Manchester Regional Hospital Board:ANDREWS, H. B., M.B. Lpool: deputy superintendent and R.M.O.,

Wrightington Hospital.BoLTON, HAROLD, M.B. Mane., F.R.c.s.: consultant orthopædic

and accident surgeon. Stockport and Maeclesfield hospitalcentres and Crewe Memorial Hospital.

FULTON, R. M., M.D. Edin., vt.R.c.P. : consultant physician,Stockport and Buxton Hospitals.

GuPTA, K. SEN, M.B. Calcutta, D.A. : asst. anaesthetist, Buryand Rossendale Hospitals.

Newcastle Regional Hospital Board:BUCKLEY, F. J. S., M.B. Sydney : senior casualty officer, Stockton

and Thornaby Hospital.FRY, E. N. S., M.B. Edin., D.A.: consultant anxsthetist, Tees-side

H.M.C. group.HENDTLASS, R. F., F.R.c.s.E. : senior casualty officer, Middles’

brough General Hospital.JOHNSTON, N. G., M.B. St. And., D.A. : senior consultant anæs-

thetist, Bishop Auckland General Hospital.QuINN, P. J. G., M.R.C.P.I. : : asst. psychiatrist, St. George’s

Hospital, Morpeth.SCOTT, J. M., M.B. Glasg., F.R.F.P.S.: senior casualty officer,

Monkwearmouth and Southwick Accident and OrthopædicHospital.

WILDER, EMMANUEL. M.B. Polish School of Medicine, Edin.:asst. pathologist, Hartlepools H.M.O.

Appointed Factory Doctors:BERRY, G. H., L.R.C.P.E., L.R.F.P.S. Glasg. : Melksham, Wiltshire.DicKiE, G. G., M.B. Aberd., D.P.H. : Rhynie, Aberdeen.KIRK, J. L., M.B. Glasg. : Irvine, Ayr.MILLER, HUGH, M.D. Edin. : Leith, Midlothian.UNSWORTH, C. E., M.B. Lpool: Frodsham, Chester.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths

BIRTHSROBERTS.—On March 12, at University College Hospital, London.

W.C.1, to Phyllida (formerly Thornton), M.D., wife of PaulRoberts, M.B.—a daughter.

WE record with regret the death of Mr. W. W. Moody, forthirty-nine years a member of our staff. He retired fromTHE LANCET in 1940, at the age of 70 ; but until lately he wasable to visit his friends at the office. Neither age nor ill healthhad been allowed to impair the kindliness and cheerfulness forwhich he will be remembered among us.