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M.R.C. Dunn Nutritional LaboratoryDr. R. G. Whitehead, director of the Medical Research

Council Child Nutrition Unit, Mulago Hospital, Kampala,Uganda, has also been appointed director of the DunnNutritional Laboratory, Cambridge, in succession to Dr.E. H. Kodicek. It is intended that the dual appointmentwill be accompanied by a close association between thetwo establishments.

Dr. Whitehead, who is 39, graduated B.sc. in biochemistryfrom the University of Leeds in 1956 and PH.D. in 1959. In thesame year he was appointed to the staff of the Dunn NutritionalLaboratory and three years later he became director of theM.R.C. Child Nutrition Unit in Uganda. His main research hasbeen on the progressive effects of malnutrition on body structureand function, and this work has been applied to the developmentof better ways of assessing the nutritional status of children andimproved methods of treatment.

Centre for Individual Learning Materials inMedical Education

A grant of E36,000 from the Nuffield Foundation hasmade it possible to establish a centre for individual learningmaterials in medical education. The centre is guided by anacademic council under the chairmanship of Sir BrynmorJones, chairman of the National Council for EducationalTechnology. The centre assists medical teachers in thedesign, production, and evaluation of individual studyprogrammes. Facilities are also offered for research andtraining in specific aspects of the effective design and useof such materials. Funds can be made available for thesecondment of academic staff to the centre. Inquiries maybe directed to Charles E. Engel, Director, Department ofAudio Visual Communication, British Medical Association,Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP.

Joint Consultants’ CommitteeSir Kenneth Robson has been elected chairman of the

Joint Consultants’ Committee in succession to Sir JohnRichardson. Mr. Alan Parks succeeds Sir Kenneth as

joint secretary of the committee.

A series of lectures forming the first part of a postgraduatecourse on the basic sciences of the musculoskeletal system is

being held on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings (up toDec. 16) at the Nuffield Orthopedic Centre, Oxford OX3 7LD.Details may be had from Mr. George Bentley at the Centre.The Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society cele-

brates its 125th anniversary this year. Since its foundation onMay 24, 1847, the society has held regular meetings and anannual dinner, and its membership has increased from 40 to 267.

Appointments

Sheffield Regional Hospital Board:BARDHAN, K. D., M.B.Madras, M.R.C.P.: consultant physician,

Rotherham and Mexborough hospital group.FAwCETT, A. N., M.B.Cantab., F.R.C-S.: consultant general surgeon,

Nottingham General Hospital.MouNFiELD, P. A., M.B.Lond., M.R.C.O.G.: consultant obstetrician and

gynaecologist, Grimsby hospital group.MULDOON, M. J., M.B.Glasg., M.R.C.O.G.: consultant obstetrician and

gynaecologist, Grimsby hospital group.

South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board:CORY, C. C., M.B.Cantab., F.R.C.S., D.o.: consultant ophthalmologist,

Redhill and Netheme and Royal Earlswood hospital groups.HOLT, D. I., M.B.Durh., D.P.M.: consultant child psyclriatrist, Hamp-

shire Child Guidance Service and Farnham and Brookwoodhospital groups.

Moorr, C. J., M.B.Lond., F.F.A. R.C.S., D.OBST.: consultant anesthetist,Redhill and Netheme hospital group.

SCHWEITZER, F. A. W., M.s.Lond., F.R.C.S.: consultant surgeon witha special interest in urology, Guildford and Godalming hospitalgroup.

Ralli International Ltd. is offering a surgical fellowship worthE2500 (plus travel expenses) to enable a medically qualifiedperson from Bangladesh to spend a year of postgraduate studyand research in Britain. Details may be had from Mr. J. K.Oglethorpe, Ralli International Ltd., 43 Berkeley Square,London W1 5DB.

Diary of the Week

DECEMBER 3 TO 9

Monday, 4thROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL, Hammersmith Hospital, Du

Cane Road, London W.124 P.M. Dr. A. S. Tavill: Metabolism of Plasma Proteins.

Tuesday, 5thBRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL FEDERATION

1.15 P.M. (Channel 7, I.L.E.A. Closed Circuit Television System.)Prof. John Landon: Some Applications of Radioimmuno-assay. (Repeated on Wednesday at 12.15 P.M. and onFriday at 1.15 P.M.)

LONDON MEDICAL GROUP5.45 P.M. (King’s College Hospital Medical School, S.E.5.) Prof.

Ivor Mills: Human Sexuality in Theory and Practice.MEDICINE TODAY

1.15 P.M. (B.B.C.-1) Dr. David Pyke, Mr. Harry Gordon: Diabetesin Pregnancy.

Wednesday, 6thUNIVERSITY OF LONDON

5.30 P.M. (Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, WC1N IEH.)Prof. A. E. Boyo: Hasmoglobulin Biochemistry and Erythro-cyte Pathology.

INSTITUTE OF DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Brompton, London S.W.35 P.M. Dr. M. C. Pearson: Radiological Procedures and the Clinician.

INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY, The National Hospital, Queen Square,London WC1N 3BG

6 P.M. Dr. Alan Ridley: Glioma Immunology.7 P.M. Mr. J. S. Garfield: Aspects of the Treatment of Gliomas.

INSTITUTE OF ORTHOPEDICS, 234 Great Portland Street, LondonWIN 6AD

6 P.M. Mr. G. C. Lloyd-Roberts: Congenital Disorders of Tibiaand Femur.

8.15 P.M. Mr. Denys Wainwright: Congenital Flat Foot.INSTITUTE OF UROLOGY, 172 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC28 8JE

5 P.M. Mr. J. E. A. Wickham: Surgery of Urinary Calculi.ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn Road, London WCIX 8LF

5.15 P.M. Dr. J. A. Nadel (San Francisco): Current Concepts inAsthma.

LIVERPOOL MEDICAL ImTITUTION, 114 Mount Pleasant, L3 5SR8 P.M. Prof. J. P. Blandy: Testicular Tumours.

MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY5 P.M. (New Medical School.) Medicine. Dr. T. B. Stretton: Asthma

and Pulmonary Eosinophilia.UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE, DD1 4HN

1 P.M. Prof. James Crooks: The Application of Radioisotopes inMedicine-The Changing Pattern.

Thursday, 7thROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, 11 St. Andrew’s Place, London NWI

4LE8.30 P.M. Dr. E. A. Underwood: The Evolution of Hasmatology.

(FitzPatrick lecture.)ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’s Inn Fields,

London WC2A 3PN5 P.M. Dr. Julian Bruner: Contributions of Sir Archibald McIndoe

to Surgery of the Hand. (Mclndoe lecture.)ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL

6 P.M. Dr. Michael Rosen: Some Problems of Pain Relief in Labour.ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, London W2 1PG

5.15 P.M. Prof. E. M. Symonds: The Medical Responsibility inTeaching Human Reproduction. (Aleck Bourne lecture.)

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH5 P.M. (Royal Infirmary, EH3 9YW.) Prof. C. T. Dollery: Is There a

Rational Basis for Drug Therapy ? (Honyman Gillespielecture.)

Friday, 8thUNIVERSITY OF LONDON

5 P.M. (St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, ECIM 6BQ.) Dr. M. M. Elk nd:Damage-repair Studies of Sublethal Radiation and DrugEffects in Mammalian Cells.

ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL11 A.M. Surgeon Vice-Admiral James Watt: Burns of Sea Battles.