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on its merits. He believed strongly that a medicalscientist should be aware of developments in fields ofscience outside his own specialty and even outsidemedicine, and this was a discipline which he firmlyimposed on himself. His advocacy of social medicinewas disturbing to some of his contemporaries.He was a master of detail. No letter ever went

unanswered; a note from him, if not acknowledgedin 24 hours, was usually followed by another, askingif it had been received. His secretary was once handeda notice to put up on the board. A pencilled spot, at thetop of the paper, surrounded by a circle, was indicatedby an arrow from a written directive : "Put thumbtack here." This was not his only eccentricity. Amember of his staff, having made an appointment tosee him, would often be greeted by the production of hiswatch. " Now let’s see," he would say,

" I can giveyou just 45 seconds-no, let’s say, at a guess, 1 minuteand 15 seconds." An hour later the young man wouldemerge, his head dizzy with the wide range of topics thathad been brought to his attention.

Minot’s keenest recreational interest was in plants.A British visitor, before the late war, remarked on thebeauties of the American flowering dogwood that standsoutside the hospitable Minot home in Brookline, andexpressed surprise that the tree was so seldom seen inBritish gardens. Some months later, on returning toEngland, he was amazed to receive a consignment ofthree young dogwood trees.

In many ways Minot was detached from contemporaryAmerican life-a survival of the great cultural traditionof the 19th-century Harvard. It was in keeping withthis 19th-century character that he maintained the almostdead art of correspondence with friends, and many inthis country as elsewhere will feel with personal sorrowthe passing of this remarkable man. A. P. M

BERNARD EDWARD GRANVILLE BAILEYM.R.C.S.

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Dr. Bernard Bailey, who died at his -home in Midhurston Feb. 4 at the age of 76, qualified in 1899 fromSt. Bartholomew’s Hospital. He held house-appoint-ments at the City of London Hospital for Diseases of theChest, the East London Hospital for Children, and theShoreditch Infirmary before he settled in practice atMidhurst in 1902. His partner writes : " Dr. Baileyloved .the country and country people, and it was notonly for his professional work and skill that he was lovedthere, but also for his willingness to help anyone, richor poor, when they were in trouble. He was a keensupporter of the many activities of village life, and itis largely to his energy that we owe our cottage hospital."

Parliament

The King’s SpeechTHE opening sentences of the speech from the Throne,

which the King delivered at the opening of Parliamenton March 6, pointed out that the economic difficultiesof the country have emphasised the need to expandthe production of food from our own soil, and HisMajesty’s Government will continue to encourage theagricultural population to increase output by everyefficient means and to make better use of marginal land.Legislation will be introduced to improve water-supplies,especially in rural areas. For the present session theGovernment propose only a limited programme of legis-lation, but it includes at least one Bill of importance tothe medical profession. Amendments -to the MedicalActs are to be introduced to raise the standard of medicaleducation and to modify the constitution and disciplinaryprocedure of the General Medical Council. Legislationwill also be proposed to vary the constitution of theCentral Midwives Board and to make other alterationsin the law relating to midwives.

Medical Peer

In the House of Lords on March 1, Lord Haden-Guest wasintroduced, took the oath, and subscribed the roll on hiselevation to the peerage. His sponsors were Lord Webb-Johnson and Lord Shepherd.

AppointmentsBACxUS, A. B., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.O.G.: senior registrar in gynaeco-

logy and obstetrics, Peterborough area.CLARKE, P. J. H., M.B., B.sC. N.U.I., D.P.H., T.D.D. : asst. senior M.O.,

East Anglian Regional Hospital Board.GRANGE, HELEN B., M.B. Lond. : asst. M.o., Essex county council,

in dept. of area M.o. in borough of Ilford.HASTILOW, IRENE M. D. F. C., M.B. Birm., D.OB’3T. R.C.O.G., D.C.H. :

asst. county M.o. in the district of Bexley, Kent.HODGSON, M. C., M.B. St. And. : appointed factory doctor, Aldershot

district.McLEAY, CHRISTINA J., M.B. Edin. : medical adviser in mental

health on the staff of the county M.o., Devon.WATSON, W. A., M.R.C.S. : appointed factory doctor, Chatterisr

district.

Diary of the Week

MARCH 12 TO 18Monday, 13thMEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 11, Chandos Street, W.1

8.30 P.M. Prof. A. M. Boyd, Dr. Geoffrey Evans : PeripheralArterial Disease.

Tuesday, 14thROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, Pall Mall East, S.W.1

5 P.M. Dr. E. E. Pochin : Investigation of Thyroid Function andDisease by the Use of Radioactive Iodine. (First Oliver-Sharpey lecture.)

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C.25 P.M. Mr. M. R. Ewing : Villous Tumours of the Rectum.

(Hunterian lecture.)INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, 5, Lisle Street, W.C.2

5 P.M. Dr. 1. Muende : Fungus Diseases of the Skin.CHELSEA CLINICAL SOCIETY

7.30 P.M. (South Kensington Hotel, 47, Queen’s Gate Terrace,S.W.7.) Mr. R. C. Brock, Dr. Paul Wood: ModernIntrathoracic Surgery.

CHADWICK LECTURE2.30 P.M. (Westminster Medical School, Horseferry Road, S.W.1.)

Dr. C. A. Boucher : Maintenance of Health by thePrevention of Accidents in the Home.

Wednesday, 15thINSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY

5 P.M. Dr. C. W. McKenney : X-ray Technique.INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY, Maudsley Hospital, Demnark Hill, S.E.5

4.30 P.M. Dr. E. Stengel : Postgraduate lecture-demonstration.ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HYGIENE, 28, Portland

Place, V.l3.30 P.M. Lieut.-C’olonel E. F. W. Mackenzie : Provision and

Maintenance of a Safe ‘Vater-supply for the Consumer.UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW

8 P.M. (Department of Ophthalmology.) Dr. J. D. Fraser : Gliomaof the Retina.

Thursday, 16thROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS

5 P.M. Dr. Pochin : Investigation of Thyroid Function andDisease by the Use of Radioactive Iodine. (Last Oliver-Sharpey lecture.)

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS5 P.M. Mr. E. M. Nanson : Respiratory Responses to Operative

Trauma. (Hunterian lecture.)UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, Gower Street,

W.C.14.30 P.M. Prof. F. G. Young, F.R.S. : The Experimental Approach

to the Problem of Diabetes Mellitus. (Sydney Ringerlecture.)

ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE7.30 P.M. (Royal Army Medical College, Millbank, S.W.I.)

Laboratory Meeting.NATIONAL HOSPITAL, Queen Square, W.C.1

5 P.M. Dr. J. Haguenau (Paris) : Cerebral Forms of DisseminatedSclerosis.

LONDON ASSOCIATION OF THE MEDICAL WOMEN’S FEDERATION8.30 P.M. (B.M.A. House, Tavistock Square, W.C.1.) Dr. Alice

Stewart : Recent Work of the Institute of Social Medicine,Oxford, on the Epidemiology of Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

Friday, 17thFACULTY OF RADIOLOGISTS

2.15 P.M. Therapy Section (Royal College of Surgeons). Mr. D. S.Poole-Wilson, Dr. J. M. W. Gibson, Dr. J. L. E. Millen:Carcinoma of the Bladder.

MAIDA VALE HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, W.95 P.M. Dr. P. H. Sandifer : Neurological demonstration.

WEST LONDON MEDICO-CFIIRURGICAL SOCIETY7.30 P.M. (South Kensington Hotel.) Sir George Thompson,

F.R.S. : Atomic Energy.

Saturday, 18thMIDDLESEX COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY

3 P.M. (Shenley Hospital.) Dr. B. M. C. Gilsenan : Demonstrationof cases. Dr. S. T. Hayward, Miss Darby (psychiatricsocial worker), Miss E. Macdonald (psychologist) : ThreeAspects of One Voluntary Admission.