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JOHN HARPER GRAVES,M R C S ; SURG.-LIEUT. RNVR

Lieutenant Graves, whose death by enemy action wasreported in June, was educated at Radley, where herowed in the eight, and at St. Thomas’s from which he

qualified in 1939, a few weeksbetore war oroxe out. -brom

holding a resident post there hewent on to St. Anthony’s, Cheam,and a house-surgeoncy at theCounty Hospital, Brighton, be-fore receiving a temporary com-mission in the Navy. He servedin a destroyer, and in com-

bined operations in the IndianOcean, contracted malariaand was invalided home lastDecember. On recovery he helda post in the dockyard atDevonport.A colleague writes : Jock

Graves, by his early death, is lostto a profession that always gave

high place to men of his qualities. We shall honour himfor his unassuming and cheerful modesty ; for his intel-lectual honesty and for his kindness to his humblestpatients. His charm lay in the fact that in his life hewas a giver, rather than a taker ; a warm friendlinessendeared him alike to teachers, colleagues, patients andchildren. Like many men whose characters matureslowly, he was showing the depth and steadfastness thatwould have made him a fine doctor. The memory of thisfresh and lovable personality will lighten our burden aswe try to build afresh the world in which he would haveplayed such a worth while r6le.

N. A. DYCE SHARPMRCP

. Neville Alexander Dyce Sharp, who was reportedmissing as the result of enemy action at sea in October,1942, was born in 1884 the son of William Sharp, solicitor,of Reigate, Surrey. Educated at the South EasternCollege, Ramsgate, after travelling a while in Canada,he entered Guy’s Hospital, obtaining the conjoint diplomain 1911 and the certificate of the London School ofTropical Medicine in 1912. At the end of that year hejoined the West African Medical Service, and was postedto the Gold Coast, arriving in time to witness a seriousoutbreak of yellow fever in Accra. When war started hewas granted a temporary commission in the Army,and served under Major-General Sir Charles Dobell in theCameroons Expeditionary Force, where he received generalcommendation for his resource and enterprise. While onleave in England in 1916 he was struck down by a severeattack of typhoid fever, but he was able to return toWest Africa after a few months, and was attached to thenorthern column of the Expeditionary Force in N.Nigeria till he was invalided home in November, 1918.Next for two years he acted as physician to the BritishLegation in Addis Ababa. There he made himselffamiliar with the ways of the Abssinians, being especi-ally interested in the slavery problem, and learned to-speak Amhara. Many people will remember his broad-cast in the stormy days of 1936 on his experiences in thatcountry. His good horsemanship deeply impressed theinhabitants. In 1922, after rejoining the West AfricanMedical Service, he worked on trypanosomiasis, eventu-ally being transferred to the Gold Coast, and becomingSMO. He retired at the age of 55 in 1939, and latterlyhad been medical officer to the Konongo Gold Mines. Hemet his end returning from the Gold Coast on sick leave.He was last seen attending to the injured when his shipwent down.Dyce Sharp contributed his bit to the progress of

tropical medicine. His best work was on filariasis-hewas the first to discover the life-history of Filaria(Dipetalonema) perstans in a midge Culicoides austeni,on the Gold Coast in 1928. His paper in the Transactionsof the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine (1928, 21, 371)describes the almost insuperable difficulties of studyingthis microscopic insect and. the strain on his eyes inidentifying and dissecting it under primitive conditions.He eventually succeeded in keeping the midges alive forten days in a silk pyjamaleg stretched over-a wire frame.

He was assisted by two native boys-Kofi, a natural flyexpert, who never forgot or forgave an insect that bithim, and Peter, who combined the job of garden-boy andfly-bait. Sharp also did some excellent research onmicrofilariæ found in the skin of natives, especially onthe beetle known as Agamofilaria streptocerca and on themorphological distinctions between the embryos ofWuchereria bancrofti, Loa loa and Onchocerca volvulus.He wrote the tropical section in the 13th edition ofTaylor’s Practice of Medicine, and published a paperon the shock treatment of leprosy by intravenousinjection of condensed milk. Being of an observantnature he studied the gorilla in its native haunts in S.Nigeria and the Cameroons. He described its primitivehabitation, and like Du Chaillu before him divined in itsincoherent grunts a form of primitive language. Hewould also discuss the habits of that mysterious creaturethe Nandi bear, in whose existence the negroes firmlybelieve and whose foot-prints he claimed to have seen.

He married in 1921 Flora elder daughter of R.Macdonald of Skye, and had two daughters.

AppointmentsMAGAURAN, W. H. B., FRCS, temp. hon. surgeon to ear, nose and

throat dept., St. John’s Hospital, London, S.E.MARTIN, A. JOYCE, MRCS, temp. hon. physician in psychological.

medicine, St. John’s Hospital, S.E.Colonial Medical Service.-The following appointments’ are

announced :-DICKIE, R., MB, medical officer, Nigeria.THOMAS, L. H., MRCS, senior health officer, Gold Coast.WALTON, G. A., MB, medical entomologist, Sierra Leone.

Births, Marriages and Deaths. BIRTHS

DON.—On July 3, at Adlington, Cheshire, the wife of Major C. S. D.Don, Rnn2c-a daughter.

EVANS.—On June 29, at Southborough, Kent, the wife of CaptainG. Rhys Evans, RAMC—a son.

CAMPBELL.-On June 27, at Dundee, the wife of Surgeon Lieut.-Commander W. G. Campbell, RNVR—a daughter.

CLARKE.—On June 30, at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital, thewife of Dr. J. G. R. Clarke—a son.

CRESSwELL.-On July 3, at Dowlais, the wife of Major P. E.Cresswell, RAMC—a daughter.

EASTCOTT.—On June 28, at St. Mary’s Hospital, W2, the wife ofDr. H. H. G. Eastcott, of Hayes, Msx-a daughter.

GORDON.—On May 19, at Farhborough, Kent, the wife of Flight-Lieutenant John Gordon, RAF-a daughter.

HARGREAVES.—On June 26, at the Royal Northern Hospital, theWife of Lieut.-Colonel G. R. Hargreaves, RAMC—a daughter.

HUNT.-On July 3, at Cambridge, the wife of Squadron-Leader JohnHunt, RAF—a daughter.

KERR.—On June 8, at Cairo, the wife of Captain J. G. Kerr, RAMC,.of Southport-a son.

LUNN.—On June 29, at Woking, the wife of Major H. F. Lunn,RAMC—a daughter.

PLEwES.-On June 26, at Luton, the wife of Mr. L. W. Plewes,FRCSE—a son.

PRICE.—On July 1, at Emsworth, the wife of Surgeon Lieut.-Commander S. H. R. Price, RN-a daughter.

PRITCHARD.—On June 26, at Hemel Hempstead, the wife of Dr. J. J.Pritchard-a son.

WALLIS.—On July 3, at Sutton, the wife of Dr. H. R. E. Wallis, RAF-a daughter. °

MARRIAGESGILMOUR—KAY.—On June 29, at Greenock, Paymaster Commander

James Kerr Gilmour, RNVR, of Bothwell, Lanarkshire, toEthel Jean Kay, MB, of Drifrield.

JEFFERSON-WADE.-On March 17, at Warrington, Lieut. JohnMichael Jefferson, RAMC, elder son of Prof. Geoffrey Jefferson, toMargaret Wade, MB.

LISTER—TRAFFORD.—On July 3, in London, John Lister, MB, toEileen Doris Trafford, MB. -

PONDER—TIDMAN.—On July 3, at Sheerness, Surgeon LieutenantRichard Ponder, RN, to Beryl Ryall Tidman, QARNNS(R).

SMITH—DUFF.—On June 26, at Beckenham, Flying-Officer JohnWarner Smith, BM, RAF, of Ware, to. Olive May Duff, WRNS.

DEATHSCOATES.—On July 2, Frederick Arthur Coates, MB BRIST., MRCS, of

Whitchurch, Hants, aged 68.GRAY.—On July 1, at Haytor Vale, Devon, Robert Walker Gray,

MB EDIN, DPH, aged 78.HENDERSON.—On June 26, at Aberdeen, William Elmslie Hender-

Son, MB ABERD., DPH. ,

HIGHET.—On June 30, Campbell Highet, MB GLASG.. of Reading,and late of Ayr.

JACOB.—On June 19, at North Stoke, Oxon, Surgeon Lieut.-Commander Norman Bremer Vickers Jacob, RN (retd), formerly

of Blackheath.PENBERTHY.—On July 3, at Hatherleigh, Devon, William Pen-

berthy, MRCS, late of Wiveliscombe, aged 76. RAMSDEN.—On July 2, at Saddleworth, Lanes, Ernest Arthur

Ramsden, MRCS, DPH.THOMSON.—On June 29, at Wimborne, Charles Bertram Thomson,

FRCS.VARIAN.-On July 1, Hilda Maud Varian, MD DUBL, wife of Dr.

George Varian, of Totnes, Devon.