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CHARLES GIBSON LOWRYM.D. R.U.I., D.Sc. Belf., F.R.C.S.I., F.R.C.O.G.

Dr. C. G. Lowry, emeritus professor of midwifery andgynaecology and a pro-chancellor of Queen’s University,Belfast, died at his home at Donaghadee on Sept. 9.Born in 1880, the eldest son of the late Samuel Lowry

of White Hill, Limavady, co. Londonderry, he waseducated at Foyle College, Londonderry, and at Queen’sCollege, Belfast, then part of the Royal University ofIreland. In 1903 he graduated M.B., gaining the Coulterscholarship. Three years later he was awarded the goldmedal for his M.D. thesis. After holding resident appoint-ments at the Royal Victoria Hospital and the MaternityHospital, Belfast, he held a demonstratorship in patho-logy at Queen’s College. Later he became assistantto the professor of midwifery. During the 1914-18 warhe served at the Belfast military orthopaedic hospital.In 1918 he took the F.R.C.S.I.The most important step in his long career at Queen’s

University was his appointment to the chair of midwiferyin 1920. From then his interest in the teaching side ofmedicine developed, and when the department ofgynaecology was amalgamated with his own in 1937 hewas appointed to the joint chair. A member of the staffof the Royal Victoria Hospital and the Ulster Hospitalfor Children and Women, he later played an importantpart in setting up the new Royal Maternity Hospital.The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologistswas founded during the later years of his career, and hewas a foundation fellow and also at one time a vice-president.

Outside his own specialty also, his advice was highlyesteemed, and from 1938 to 1946 he was Crown nomineefor Northern Ireland on the General Medical Council.When he retired in 1945, after a career of great distinctionand singleness of purpose in which he had done muchto raise the standard of teaching in his specialty, hisfriends presented him with his portrait painted byMr. James Gunn. In making the presentation Mr. T. S.Holmes, F.R.C.O.G., said, " He is the only person of myacquaintance who knew the name and something abouteach of the students in his very large classes." In 1949Queen’s University conferred on him the honorary degree

of D.sc.A colleague writes : " C. G., as he was called by many

generations of students and graduates of Queen’s, wasa character and personality that none who knew himwill forget. His incisive phrases and emphasising fingerhammered into even the dullest of his students thebasic essentials of the subject, and his evident -interestinspired many with much of his own enthusiasm. Hewas a stickler for exact detail and woe betide the examineewho thought that vague generalities would suffice. Hehad that rare gift in a teacher of holding his students’attention without apparent effort through every phaseof his subject, and his high standard of teaching didmuch to enhance the standing of the Belfast MedicalSchool. He did not suffer fools gladly but he inspiredthe respect and affection of thousands of students. Hisalmost overelaborate technique and meticulous attentionto detail seemed to many a counsel of perfection whichthe hurly-burly of practice would never allow to bemaintained, but by this quality he set a standard whicheven in adverse conditions was never forgotten."

Professor Lowry married Miss Grace Crymble, whosurvives him with their only daughter, the wife ofProf. C. H. G. Macafee, F.R.C.O.G.

PROF. WOODBURN MORISON

S. R. writes : " In the broad fields of radiologyWoodburn Morison’s name and personality will alwaysbe linked with those of Thurstan Holland and of AlfredBarclay. This triumvirate of the North wielded a

powerful sway over radiological thought and practice intheir day ; there was something solid and substantialabout them. Holland and Barclay were happy in tech-nical developments, especially those which involvedgadgets that could be fashioned in the family workshop.Morison’s was rather the accumulating mind of theplanner ; witness his reorganisation of the radiologicaldepartments at Edinburgh Infirmary and the RoyalCancer Hospital.

" If Holland was the bon viveur, Morison was thegood companion, and this showed itself not only on thefestive occasion. He was a good lecturer and for manyyears his lectures were a delight to the postgraduatestudents taking the diploma in radiology ; not only sobut Morison was really concerned that they got whatthey needed. And when in due course they met himagain they found that he could be just as agreeable asan examiner. A considerable figure of a man-in moreways than one-to see him at a gathering,, whether hereor abroad, was to recognise the paterfamilias, thepatriarch in fact. His greatest contribution to hisspecialty was perhaps the way in which he organisedradiological services, and the solid encouragement hegave to its younger adherents."

Diary of the Week

SEPT. 23 TO 29Sunday, 23rdLONDON JEWISH HOSPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY

3 P.M. (Woburn House, Upper Woburn Place, BV.C.1.)Dr. Emanuel Miller : The Frontiers of Psychiatry.(Presidential address.)

Tuesday, 25thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C.2

5 P.M. Mr. Rainsford Mowlem : Use of Bone in ReconstructiveSurgery.

6.15 P.M. Mr. Rodney Maingot : Surgery of the Bile-ducts.

Wednesday, 26thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

5 P.M. Mr. Norman Tanner : Non-malignant Surgical Affectionsof the Cardiac End of the Stomach.

6.15 P.M. Mr. Charles Read : Ureter in Gynaecology.

Thursday, 27thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

5 P.M. Mr. Ronald Furlong : The Painful Shoulder.6.15 P.M. Prof. George Perkins : Pott’s Fracture.

Friday, 28thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

5 P.M. Mr. William Gissane : Principles of Treatment in Burns.6.15 P.M. Mr. J. Penny backer : Obstructive Hydrocephalus.

MEDICAL SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF VENEREAL DISEASES,11, Chandos Street, W.1

7.30 P.M. Dr. Albert Heyman : Pathogenesis of the Jarisch-Herxheimer Reaction.

MIDDLESEX COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY4.30 P.M. (Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, Middlesex.) Mr. H. 0.

Blauvelt : Emergency Surgery. (Chairman’s address.)

AppointmentsBRiNDLE, T. W., M.B. Manc.. D.f.H. : M.o.H. and divisional M.o.,

Cheshire County Council.HUDSON, R. E. B., M.D., B.PHARM. Lond. : pathologist, National

Heart Hospital, London.MASSIE, A. P., M.B. Mane.: consultant pathologist, hospitals in

Hull R.m.e. groups A and B.WATT, A. G. M., M.B. Edin., F.R.c.s.E. : asst. orthopsedic surgeon,

Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow. e

The terms and Conditions of Service of Hospital Medical andDental Staff apply to all N.H.S. hospital posts we adt’ertise, unlessotherwise stated. Canvassing disqualifies, but candidates may normallyvisit the hospital by appointment.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths

BIRTHSELLIOTT.-On Sept. 15, at Oxford, the wife of Dr. R. I. K. Elliott-

a son.ODDIE.-On Sept. 7, at Bourn, Cambridge, the wife of Dr. J. A.

Oddie-a son.SIMONS.—On Sept. 11, at Wakefield, Dr. Joan Simons (nee Garside),

wife of Dr. E. L. Simons-a daughter.STELL.-On Sept. 14, at Chester, Dr. Eleanor Davies-Jones, the

wife of Mr. John Laidman Stell, A.T.D.-a daughter.

MARRIAGESLEE—PRiESTALL..—On Sept. 11, in London, Stanley Lee, F.R.C.S.,

to Elizabeth Priestnall.

DEATHSDEBENHAM.—On Sept. 8, Horace Allan Debenham, M.R.C.S., of

Whiteleaf, Princes Risborough, aged 87.EVANs.-On Aug. 14, at Nottage, Glamorgan, Thomas John Evans,

F.R.C.S.E., formerly squadron-leader R.A.F.v.R., husband ofMary Evans, M.D. (formerly Kane), aged 39.

H.E]srDER80N.—On Sept. 13, in Glasgow, Alastair StevensonHenderson, M.B. Glasg., aged 45.

BVRiaHT.—On Sept. 11, at Lower Bourne, Farnham, MauriceBeresford Wright, O.B.E., M.D. Edin.