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University of BristolDr. N. R. Butler, who is senior lecturer in the Institute of

Child Health, London University, has been appointed to thechair of child health.Mr. Butler, who is 44 years of age, was educated at Epsom College

and Charing Cross Hospital MedicalSchool, where he qualified in 1942.After holding house-appointmentsthere, he held successive appoint-ments as first assistant in the paedia-trics department of University CollegeHospital, medical registrar and patho-logist at the Hospital for Sick Children,Great Ormond Street, and con-

sultant paediatrician to the Salisbury,Swindon, and Cirencester hospitalgroup. In 1963 he was appointedsenior lecturer at the Institute ofChild Health in London, and physi-cian at the Hospital for Sick Children,Great Ormond Street. He is directorof the Perinatal Mortality Surveyof the National Birthday Trust Fund,

and is joint author of Perinatal Mortality, which was published in1963. He is also co-director of the National Child DevelopmentStudy. He has published papers on vaccination against measles,congenital diaphragmatic hernia in the newborn, and severe infantilehypercalcxmia.

Royal College of Surgeons of EnglandAt a meeting of the council on June 9, with Sir Russell

Brock, the president, in the chair, Dr. R. M. Zollingerof Columbus, Ohio, was admitted to the honorary fellowship.At a meeting on June 10, Mr. D. M. Brooks, was admitted

to the fellowship ad eundem. The Clement Price Thomasaward for 1963-65 was made to Prof. Ake Senning for his workon the design and construction of the Crafoord-Senning heart-lung machine and on the surgical treatment of transpositionof the great vessels. A Mackenzie Mackinnon Streatfeildresearch fellowship was awarded to Dr. I. M. James.Mr. B. Pender and Mr. W. D. Park were appointed addi-

tional surgical tutors in the North East Metropolitan regionunder the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust pilot scheme.The following were coopted to the council for 1965-66,

representing branches of practice:Anaesthetics, Prof. T. C. Gray; general practice, Dr. R. G. Gibson;

gynxcology and obstetrics, Mr. J. A. Stallworthy; ophthalmology,Mr. A. G. Cross; otolaryngology, Mr. G. H. Bateman; radiology,Dr. Thomas Lodge.A diploma of fellowship was granted to D. M. Gruebel Lee

and a diploma of membership to I. M. Stanley.

Committee of Enquiry into Pharmaceutical Industryand N.H.S. -

This committee is now prepared to receive written evidencefrom individuals as well as from organisations. Memorandashould be sent direct to the secretary, Mr. T. E. Dutton, 14,Russell Square, London, W.C.1.

New Rheumatism DepartmentOn June 14 a new department of rheumatology and physical

medicine and a department of rheumatology research wereopened at the Middlesex Hospital; London.The two departments will be housed in a new seven-storey building,

called Arthur Stanley House, in Tottenham Street. The clinical

department will comprise the present hospital department and theArthur Stanley Institute for Rheumatic Diseases which was foundedby the British Red Cross Society in 1933, and which became part ofthe Middlesex Group in 1948. It will provide comprehensive care forthe rheumatic patient, through diagnostic clinics, a hydrotherapypool, and physiotherapy and occupational-therapy departments. Theresearch unit, which will be administered by the medical school, wasmade possible by gifts of 50,000 from the Arthritis and RheumatismCouncil, of E24,000 from the Nuffield Foundation, and a grant from:he University of London. Initial research projects will includefurther studies into the role of auto-immunity in the causation of..heumatic and other diseases. The director of the clinical departments Dr. A. C. Boyle, and of the research department Sir Charles Dodds,’.R.C.P.

Royal College of Physicians of IrelandAt a meeting of the college held on Friday, June 4, with

Dr. Brian Pringle, the president, in the chair, the following wereadmitted to the fellowship:

Leslie Fridjohn, T. G. Milliken, I. C. Roddie, P. A. Browne.The following were admitted to the membership:P. J. Bofin, C. T. Doyle, T. J. M. Egan, S. S. A. Fenton, W. S. Jagoe,

Eileen P. Kane, P. J. Mannion, D. G. McDevitt, W. McC. Nelson, H. P.Staunton, D. J. Ward, M. J. Whelton.

Royal College of Obstetricians and GynæcologistsDr. A. W. Liley of Auckland, New Zealand, is to give a

lecture in the college on Friday, June 25, at 5 P.M. His subjectis to be amniocentesis. Admission is by ticket only, and thesemay be had from the secretary of the college, 27, Sussex Place,Regent’s Park, London, N.W.l.

British Tuberculosis AssociationThe annual conference of this Association is to be held in

Oxford from Wednesday, June 30, to Saturday, July 3. Theprogramme will include a symposium on tuberculosis as aninternational disease. Further details and entrance forms maybe had from the administrative secretary of the association,59, Portland Place, London, W.l.British Student Health AssociationThis Association is to hold a conference at Woolton Hall,

Manchester, from Sunday to Friday, July 11-16. Talks willcover occupational, physical, and emotional problems affectingstudents. Further details may be had from Dr. S. E. Finlay,The University, Leeds, 2. ,

Association of Sea and Air Port Health Authorities ofthe British Isles

The annual meeting of this Association will take place inSouthwark from Wednesday, June 30, to Friday, July 2.Further details may be had from Dr. J. E. Epsom, M.O.H.,Municipal Offices, Castle House, 2, Walworth Road, London,S.E.I.

British Society for ImmunologyScottish group.--A meeting of this group will be held at the

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, 242, St. Vincent’sStreet, Glasgow, on Friday and Saturday, July 2 and 3, at

10 A.M. Further details may be had from Prof. R. G. White,Western Infirmary, Glasgow, W.I.

The title of professor of medicine has been conferred on Dr. IanMaclean Smith in respect of his post at the department of internalmedicine, University of Iowa.The annual general meeting and dinner of the Cambridge

Graduates’ Medical Club will be held at Trinity College on Friday,July 2, at 7 P.M. The hon. Cambridge secretary is Dr. H. H. E.Batten, F.R.C.S., 67, Bridge Street, Cambridge.

AppointmentsBARKHAN, PERCY, M.D. W’srand: consultant pathologist (hasmatological

work), Guy’s Hospital, London.BEASLEY, JOHN, M.B. Lond., D.P.H.: deputy M.O.H. and deputy principal

school M.o., Bournemouth.BIRCH, DOREEN A., M.B. Cape Town, F.R.C.S. : consultant E.N.T. surgeon,

Lincoln County Hospital and Grantham and Kesteven GeneralHospital, Grantham.

CRICHTON, DAVID, M.B.E., M.B. Edin., D.P.H., D.I.H., group-captain: tocommand R.A.F. Hospital, Wroughton.

LLOYD-JONES, REES, M.B. Lond., F.R.C.O.G., F.R.C.S. : honorary consultantobstetrician and gynaecologist, St. Andrew’s Hospital, London.

MACLEOD, M. C., M.D. Glasg., D.P.H.: M.O.H. and school M.o., Bedfordshire.McLARTY, ISOBEL J., M.B. Edin.: senior assistant M.o., Worcestershire.PLUMLEY, T. A., M.B. Lond., D.P.H., D.OBST.: M.O.H., Dorking, Leatherhead,

and Horley.ROBINSON, B. D., M.B. Durh., D.P.H. : deputy M.O.H., Sutton Coldfield.ROTHNIE, N. G., M.S. Lond., F.R.C.S. : consultant surgeon, Reading area.WILKINSON, J. C. M., A.F.C., M.A., B.M. Oxon., D.P.M. : consultant psychiatrist,

Derby area, based on the Pastures Hospital, Mickleover, Derby.North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board:

GLICK, E. N., M.B. Leeds, M.R.C.P., D.PHYS.MED.: consultant in physicalmedicine, Central and Hackney and Queen Elizabeth hospital groups.

LEARMONT, DAVID, M.B. Birm., F.R.C.S.E., D.o.: consultant ophthalmicsurgeon, St. Helena hospital group.

LovELL, D. T., M.R.C.S., F.F.A. R.c.s.i., D.A.: consultant anaesthetist,Romford hospital group.

SHADDICK, R. A., M.R.C.S., D.PHYS.MED.: consultant in physical medicine,Mildmay Mission Hospital.