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Royal College of Surgeons of EdinburghAt a meeting of the college on July 25, with Mr. J. M.

Graham, the president, in the chair, the following wereadmitted to the fellowship :

R. D. 1. Beggs, M.B. Camb. ; H. «’. Gallagher, M.B. Belf.; G. C.Gordon, M.B. Glasg.; D. B. Handelman, L.R.C.P.E.; R. W. B.Holland, M.B. Edin. ; C. M. Hopkins, M.B. Melb., M.R.C.O.G.; PhilipJardine, L.R.C.P.E. ; J. P. Lane, M.B., N.U.I.; T. J. McCormac,M.B. N.Z.; Matthew McLearie, M.B. Glasg. ; A. M. Millar, M.B.Melb. ;’ G. H. Moore, M.B. Mane. ; J. F. Paxton, M.B. Camb. ;H. H. Pearson, M.B. Sydney ; N. A. Punt, M.R.C.S.; Sidney Sacks,M.B. Cape Town ; D. G. Simpson, M.B. N.Z.; W. M. Van Essen,M.R.C.S.

Royal College of Obstetricians and GynxcologistsAt a meeting of the council on July 27, with Mr. Eardley

Holland, the president, in the chair, Mr. William Gilliattwas elected president to take office in September next.Mr. R. M. Allan and Sir William Fletcher Shaw were electedvice-presidents.The following were elected to the membership :H. R. Arthur, S. J. Barr, B. E. Blair, Catherine I. Blyth, Joyce M.

Burt, Harold Burton, G. B. W. Fisher, B. G. Halder, R. L. Hartley,Derek Jefferiss, Iola L. T. Jones, L. W. Lauste, Elizabeth McCallum,Margaret Orford, H. C. Perry, D. L. Poddar, Esther M. Pollock,J. E. Scott-Carmichael, W. R. Sloan, R. A. R. Taylor, E. W. L.Thompson, T. G. E. White.

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Society of Medical Officers of HealthThe county-borough group held its annual meeting from

July 19 to 22 at Eastbourne under the presidency of Dr.R. H. H. Jolly. Dr. W. S. Walton, newly appointed M.o.H.for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was elected president for the

coming year. The secretary is Dr. J. Greenwood Wilson.Among the addresses given was one by Dr. Scott Williamsonon the work of the Peckham Pioneer Health Centre from itsfoundation. Many members said they would do their bestto promote similar centres in their own areas. Dr. F. Fenton,M.o.H. for Eastbourne, in a paper on the Care of HomelessChildren, stressed the need for coordination of their care

through the person of the medical officer of health. The

group resolved to recommend that this policy should beadvocated by the council of the society. Prof. J. M. Mackin-tosh, in an address which stirred his hearers, outlined hisideas for the training of medical administrators.

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Royal Medico-Psychological AssociationAt the annual dinner of this association, held at the Royal

College of Physicians of Edinburgh on July 17, Prof. D.

Murray Lyon, president of the college, proposed the toastof The Association. One of the features of old Edinburgh,he recalled, had been the multiplicity of clubs and societies.Some were designed for mutual protection of their members,some for mutual improvement and education, and some forpurely social purposes. He was glad to see that the RoyalMedico-Psychological Association successfully fulfilled allthese functions. In his reply Prof. D. K. Henderson, thepresident, urged the members to keep their minds on thefuture, but also asked them to remember to pay tribute tomany men and women who were not themselves psychiatrists,or even doctors, but had been pioneers in mental health.William Tuke, Elizabeth Fry, Octavia Hill, and FlorenceNightingale, by their intelligence and diligence and far-sightedness had advanced tremendously the cause for whichthey all stood. He recalled also two Americans : DorotheaDix came to Edinburgh in 1855 and it was through herinitiative that the present system of mental hospitals wasbegun in Scotland ; Clifford Beers founded in 1907 theConnecticut Society for the Development of Mental Hygiene,a step in the evolution of the mental services whose significancecould not be exaggerated. Professor Henderson thought itvery important that psychiatrists should work in close touchwith intelligent laymen. He wished to express publicly theappreciation of all physician-superintendents of mental

hospitals, like himself, for the wholehearted voluntary workand cooperation of their boards of management, and he empha-sised the value of the voluntary system in hospital manage-ment in general, but particularly in relation to mental hos-pitals. The toast of The City of Edinburgh was proposed byDr. W. S. Maclay, and in his reply Sir John Falconer, lordprovost, spoke particularly of the work which psychiatristswere doing in the study of psychosomatic disorders and inchild guidance. The child-guidance clinic recently set up bythe Edinburgh corporation was giving most encouragingresults. Dr. W. M. McAIlister’s proposal of The Guests broughtreplies from Lord Cooper (Lord Justice Clerk) and Sir WilliamDarling, M.P.

Beit Memorial FellowshipsSir John Anderson; F.R.s., and Sir Henry Dale, o.M., F.R.S.,

have been elected trustoes-of the fund. The following awardshave been made :

FOURTH YEAR FELLOWSHIPSG. J. POPJAK, M.D. To study the behaviour of plasma lipids

under different experimental conditions and the problem of fretalfat metabolism. At the department of pathology, St. Thomas’sHospital, London.ETHEL G. TEECE, PH.D. To study the chemistry of bacterial

polysaccharides and nucleoproteins with special reference to theGram complex and to the factors responsible for cell division. Atthe department of chemistry, University of Birmingham.

JUNIOR FELLOWSHIPSS. E. DICKER, M.D., PH.D. To study the extrarenal water meta.

bolism and renal function in rats. At the department of pharmaco.logy, University of Bristol.

P. M. Tow, M.B. To study prefrontal leucotomy and the functionof the frontal area. At the research department, Runwell Hospitalfor Nervous and Mental Diseases.

Royal AppointmentsMajor-General J. C. A. Dowse, C.B., c.B.E., M.o., M.B.,

late R.A.M.C., has been appointed honorary physician toThe King in succession to Brigadier H. A. Sandiford, andMajor-General E. A. Sutton, c.B.E., M.c., late R.A.M.C., honorarysurgeon in succession -to Major-General G. A. Blake.

WORLD FEDERATION OF SCIENTISTS.—This federation owesits foundation to the Association of Scientific Workers, notto the British Association as stated on p. 146 of our last issue..

In the article by Dr. K. B. Rogers (July 20, p. 87) "

Staph.pyogenes " should read " Strep. pyogenes."

Medical DiaryAUG. 4-10

Thursday, 8thMEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE L.C.C. SERVICE

3 P.M. (Hammersmith Hospital, Ducane Road, W.12.) Clinicalmeeting.

Births, Marriages, and DeathsBIRTHS .

COBBE.—On July 24, the wife of Dr. C. J. Cobbe, M.B.E.—a son.CusT.-On July 21, the wife of Dr. Norman Cust, of Elvaston Place,

S.W.7—a daughter.FRASER.—On July 7, at Bermuda, the wife of Surgeon Commander

P. K. Fraser, R.N.—a daughter.LONGMORE.—On July 29, in Oxford, the wife of Dr. J. B. Longmore

-a daughter.MARRIAGES

COLEBROOK-SCOVELL.-On July 26, at Birmingham, LeonardColebrook, F.R.C.O.G., F.R.S., to Vera, widow of Edward Scovell.

HEWAT—BOYD-PERKINS.—On July 27, in London, RichardMiddleton Hewat, M.R.C.S., wing-commander R.A.F., toKathleen Mary Boyd-Perkins, P.M.R.A.F.N.S.R.

REID-PEDLER.-On July 25, in London, Douglas Andrew CampbellReid, M.R.c.s., to Margaret Joyce Pedler, M.B.

DEATHSALDRED-BROWN.—On July 26, at Bath, George Ronald Pym

Aldred-Brown, D.M. Oxfd.BOECKX.—On July 22, in London, Ludovicus Cornelius Josephus

Boeckx, M.D. Louvain, aged 71.COLWELL.—On July 22, at Bognor Regis, Hector Alfred Colwell,

M.D., PH.D. Lond., M.R.C.P., aged 70.GEMMILL.—On July 28, in Birmingham, William Gemmill, lIf.B.

Edin., CH.M. Birm., F.R.C.S. ,

HUNTER.-On July 24, at Bournemouth, Joseph Hunter, M.B. Dubl.,surgeon major I.M.S. retd., of Londonderry, aged 95.

JONES.—On July 23, at Umzinto, Natal, Francis Samuel Jones,M.R.C.S., aged 67.

WILKINSON.—On July 7, in Dublin, Thomas Biddulph PilswortttWilkinson, M.B. R.U.I., formerly of Plymouth, aged 82.

... At present the G.M.C. consists of practising doctorsexactly as if the Prison Commissioners were practising burglarsand murderers. It is a professional association of the worsttype, a hundred years out of date scientifically. Its record isinfamous.... I must not cumber your columns with notoriousinstances of its superstitions, its prolongation of expensivemedical apprenticeship by disheartening rubbish which thestudent has to unlearn or forget at the bedside, its ignoranceof the history of medical science, and its absurd amateurstatistics dating from a time when uncontrolled post hocpropter hoc inferences, and percentages based on two or threecases, passed as mathematical certainties..... I am too old tokeep hammering in the case I stated in my preface to TheDocto,r’s Dilemma. All I can do, with your permission, is towarn Mr. Bevan that if he does not make a clean sweep ofthe doctors from the G.M.C. and a thorough revision of thecurriculum there will be trouble for him which may run to abreakdown of the Act.-Mr. BERNARD SHAW, Times, July 30.