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University of CambridgeOn Nov. 2 the following degrees were conferredM.B., B.Chir.-* M. 0. J. Gibson, and * C. F. H. Wiessner.M.B.-* Sir Ivor Beauchamp and L. J. Bacon.

* By proxy.

Royal College of Physicians of LondonAt a meeting of the college held on Oct. 31, with Sir Robert

Hutchison, the president, in the chair, Dr. Henry MacCormac,Dr. Hope Gosse, Dr. R. A. Rowlands and Dr. Robert Coopewere elected councillors. Dr. A. Clark-Kennedy was electedrepresentative of the college on the committee of managementof the Conjoint Board. The president announced the awardof the Jenks memorial scholarship to Gerald Rees Davies,late of Epsom College, and the appointment of Dr: W. N.Pickles as Milroy lecturer for 1942. -

Isaac Muende, M.B. Lond. was elected a member. Licencesto practise were conferred upon 182 candidates (159 menand 23 women) who have passed the final examination of theConjoint Board and have complied with the by-laws of thecollege. The following are the names of the successfulcandidates :-

R. H. Alexander, S. M. Ali, W. H. E. Allen, J. L. B. Ansell,0. B. Appleyard, D. J. Ap Simon, W. D. Arthur, P. A. Bachmann,C. F. Ballard, P. S. Barclay, R. C. Barclay, Alexander Barlow,E. D. Barlow, K. L. Barnes, Robert Bauer, G. W. Bellis, F. D.Birks, Robert Boggon, J. F. Bourdillon, Ruth E. M. Bowden,P. T. Boyle, J. V. Braithwaite, B. D. Burns, J. S. G. A. Burns,Walter Calvert, A. H. Campbell, E. C. R. Campbell, W. R. Clarke,D. P. Cocks, P. W. S. Coghill, L. B. Cohen, R. H. L. Cohen, M. J.Conlon, 0. L. C. Cookson, G. 0. Cowdy, A. S. Craner, Leonora A.Crawford, Barbara M. Crook, Muriel Crouch, Timothy Culloty,David Dangerfield, H. M. Darlow, J. 0. Davies, Grace T. Dawson,W. G. Daynes, H. E. H. Denham, R. V. Dent, George Discombe,P. C. Dismorr, D. M. L. Doran, R. E. Dunn, J. G. Eadie, T. E. C.Early, A. H. A. El-Baghdadi, John Faiq, A. G. Farr, J. B. Fawcitt,M. A. Fawkes, J. M. Ferguson, J. R. Fletcher, D. C. Fraser, D. N.Fuller, Laurence Garrett, Basil Godwin, Harry Greenberg, SaulGruber, J. P. Guthrie, K. A. Hall, R. S. B. Hamilton, F. W. Han-ford, G. I. Harding, J. S. Hesketh, C. R. F. Hewlett, Dorothy M.Hicks, R. T. Hinde, H. D. R. Hine, G. S. Hopkins, E. V. Hope,Gordon Houseman, W. G. J. Hughes, S. 0. Hunt, A. D. Husband,D. M. Jackson, F. S. Jackson, Muriel E. James, B. D. L. Johnson,G. A. Johnson, F. T. Jones, J. G. Jones, P. E. H. Jones, MostaphaKamill, J. G. Koopman, Gerardus Krafft, Denys Laing, P. W. W.Leach, Cynthia Lee, J. B. Lee-Woolf, Flora Levy, Delfun Lewis,T. D. C. Lewis, Max Lipsitz, G. B. Locke, W. J. C. Lord, R. E.McLachlan, Alastair Maconochie, J. M. Malins, Antony Maples,W. W. Marsden, D. V. Martin, D. H. Meldrum, S. P. Millar, R. P.Mills, D. T. Milnes, S. N. Mohan, E. H. Moorhouse, J. E. Morgan,P. S. Norris, Ruth P. Peterson, H. T. Phillips, Florence R. Pillman,G. W. Pinder, J. M. Piney, J. F. Poolman, D. S. Porter, MangaduRathnavelu, M. A. Rauf, A. H. Rea, Lucien Read, R. D. S. Rhys-Lewis, Joseph Ribeiro, B. G. Rigden, P. A. L. Roberts, G. M.Robson, J. W. Rogerson, Joan A. Rosmarin. C. M. H. Rotman,T. W. Rowntree, C. A. Royde, R. S. Russell-Smith, Mary M. E.Rutter, Kate E. Rymer, J. E. Ryner, James Salwey, A. R. Sand-ford, C. A. Sandle, C. F. Saunders, Nathaniel Saunders, EdmundShephard, Harry Shloimovitz, A. R. Silcock, Margaret C. Smith,Peter Smith, A. J. H. Spafford, Kathleen Staynes, J. M. Steinberg,John Stuppel, Myra Sutherland, Norman Swallow, J. F. Swan,P. H. Tasker, D. M. E. Thomas, D. T. Thomas, E. G. Thomas,H. A. Thomas, Beatrice M. Thompson, William Thomson, AhmedToorawa, N. C. B. Trapps, P. D. Trevor-Roper, Richard Wadia,Violet E. Waller, Mary J. Walmsley, Patrick Waters, W. F. J.Weston, C. L. Wharton, H. W. Wheate, M. W. L. White, J. H.Wildman, Mary U. Wilkin, J. M. Williams, T. N. P. Wilton, andJohn Woodley.

Diplomas in child health were conferred, jointly with theRoyal College of Surgeons, upon those mentioned in THELANCET of Oct. 19, p. 505, and diplomas in public healthupon the following :

S. D. Arya, B. C. Barua, Mary T. Day, J. M. Gray, IbadullaKitchlew, M. W. A. Quraishi.

Hospital Planning in ScotlandThe Scottish medical advisory committee to the Nuffield

Provincial Hospitals Trust mentioned in our Scottish letterlast week will include :

Sir John Fraser (chairman), Prof. J. R. Learmonth, Prof. NoahMorris, Prof. C. F. W. Illingworth, Prof. Charles McNeil, Prof.James Hendry, Prof. Adam Patrick, Dr. J. Crawford Knox, Dr.W. G. Clark, Prof. J. M. Mackintosh, Dr. A. Greig Anderson, Dr.Duncan Leys, Dr. R. W. Craig, and Dr. A. S. M. Macgregor.

Sir Girling Ball has been elected dean of the faculty ofmedicine in the University of London for 1940-42.

A meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britainwill be held at 17, Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C.l,on Nov. 14, at 2.30 P.M., when Prof. Alexander Fleming willgive an address on antiseptics in war-time surgery.

The military cross has been awarded to Flying OfficerC. B. J. Wylley, B.M.

Flying Officer Wylley was buried in the debris of a buildingwhich received a direct hit during an intensive air raid on anaerodrome. In spite of slight injuries and shock, this medicalofficer immediately rendered first aid to other injured personnel.

W.S./Captain N. R. Lansdell, R.A.M.C., previouslyreported missing, is now reported prisoner of war.

Colonel E. M. Cowell, A.M.S., has been promoted to therank of brigadier. He is the first medical man to hold thisrank.

A meeting of the Royal Society of Arts will be held at JohnStreet, Adelphi, W.C.2 at 1.45 P.M., on Nov. 27, whenMr. A. Dickson Wright will speak on the treatment of wounds.

The examination for the Theodore Williams Scholarshipin Pathology will be held in the University of Oxford, to-

day, Saturday, Nov. 9, and not on Nov. 10 as previouslyannounced.

At the quarterly meeting of the directors of the NavalMedical Compassionate Fund, held on Oct. 29, withSurgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Percival Nicholls, medical director-general of the Navy, in the chair, the sum of E154 was distri.buted among the several applicants.The Dudley Medical War Committee have nominated

Dr. Ellis Taylor, assistant school medical officer, for servicein the forces. The local education committee have refusedto release him until they have found a suitable successor.Dr. Taylor is responsible for some 7000 children, and thecommittee feel that it is not in the national interest that thiswork should be allowed to suffer. The committee are

advertising the post.

Births, Marriages and Deaths

BIRTHSAvERY.-On Nov. 2, at Kota Bharu, Malaya, to Dr. Ursula Avery

(nee Jeffery)-a son.BASEETT.—On Oct. 26, in Edinburgh, the wife of Lieutenant

Noel Baskett, R.A.M.C.-twins, a son and daughter.CHAPPEL.-On Nov. 2, at Minehead, the wife of Dr. H. M. Chappel-

a son.

CLARKE.—On Oct. 29, at Oxford the wife of Dr. E. P. Ciarke--adaughter.

DEACON.-On Oct. 29, the wife of Dr. John Nissen Deacon, ofEdgware-a son.

HoRGAN.-On Oct. 26, at Tralee, the wife of Mr. Michael Horgan,F.R.C.S.-a son.

JENNINGS.-On Nov. 3, at Reading, the wife of Dr. L. M. Jennings—a daughter.

KNOWLES.—On Oct. 27, at Petersfield, the wife of Major A. H.Knowles, R.A.M.C.-a daughter.

LEEDHAM-GREEN.-On Nov. 2, in Edinburgh, the wife of MajorJ. C. Needham-Green, R.A.M.C.-a son.

SHOVE.—On Oct. 26, the wife of Dr. Russell Shove, of Cnllompton--a son.

TUCKWELL.—On Nov. 2, at Puttenham, the wife of Mr. E. G.Tuckwell, F.R.C.S.-a daughter.

MARRIAGESDICK—COLVILL.—On Oct. 30, at Campbeltown, Argyll, Henry

Paul Dick, M.R.C.S., surgeon lieutenant, R.N.V.R., son ofDr. F. A. Dick, of Walton-on-the-Hill, to Nancie Colvill.

ELLIOTT—BLEINTON.—On Oct. 30, in London, Frank Abercrombie. Elliott, M.R.C.P., to Betty Kathleen Elkinton.GRAHAM—RUSSELL.—On Nov. 3, at Blundellsands, George Des-

mond Graham, M.R.C.S., to Evelyn Ann Russell.

DEATHSCOLTART.-On Nov. 4, in a railway accident, John Gilchrist Coltart,

M.B. Glasg., and his wife.CROSS.-On Oct. 29, at Sidmouth, Francis George Cross, F.R.C.S.FITzGERALD.-In October, by enemy action, Desmond FitzGerald,

M.R.C.S., and his wife.SPENCER.—On Oct. 29, Walter George Spencer, O.B.E., M.S. Lond.,

F.R.C.S., aged 82.

AppointmentsGOODING, S. E. F., M.D. Camb. : part-time M.D. for civil defence

for Surbiton.LOGAN, H. A., M.B. Belf. : examining factory surgeon for Altrincham,

Chester.MACDONALD, F. G., M.R.C.S., D.P.H. : asst. V.D. officer for Durham

and Northumberland with Gateshead and Newcastle-on-Tyne.MAGAURAN, W. H. B., M.D., M.Ch. N.U.I., F.R.C.S.: temp. con-

sultant to the ear, nose, and throat department of the KingEdward Memorial Hospital, Ealing.

OWEN, E. TUDOR, M.B. Lpool: junior R.S.O. at the Christie Hospitaland Holt Radium Institute, Manchester.