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the questions ambiguous and of uncertain relevance, and thoseattending the meeting registered anxiety at the idea that theirfuture was dependent upon such inaccurate information.The Association, it was reported, had received much support

from the Royal College of General Practitioners, who had pro-posed a joint working-party; and support had also come frompwdiatricians and from some community physicians.Dr Shelagh Tyrrell emphasised that the issue was not child

health: it was a choice between accepting a managed genericservice-a "19th-century concept dangerously out of date" asCourt had called it-or taking the view that district hospitalsand academic units should integrate as equal partners with thecommunity components. Family planning should be linked togynxcology departments; the young chronic sick should becared for by doctors working from departments of physicalmedicine; and the diminishing numbers of patients in long-stayhospitals could lead to the release of psychiatrists and othersto work in the community with mentally handicapped adults.The meeting sent to the D.H.S.S. a message inviting the

Department to consult with the Association before irreversibledecisions were reached.

INSULINS CHART

A CHART’ illustrating strengths and colour codes of the var-ious insulins, their manufacturer, animal origin, preservative,physical state and pH, and time of action has been preparedby the drug information centre at the London Hospital. Spacehas been left for new insulins, and notes on the dispensing andmixing of insulins are given.

APPEAL FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEWGUINEA

THE medical-school library of the University of Papua NewGuinea contains only 10 000 volumes, yet it has to serve theneeds, not only of faculty staff and students, but also of medi-cal, dental, and research workers throughout the country,many of whom work in remote and inaccessible areas. Finan-cial resources for improving the library’s stock and developingan efficient information service are slender and an appeal hasbeen launched for contributions in the form of money, books,and periodicals from the medical community. Donations maybe sent to the Medical Faculty Library, P.O. Box 5623, Bor-oko, Papua New Guinea. The Library will pay carriage onlyon donations which are selected from titles sent in advance.

Medical Research Council

The following have been appointed to the Medical ResearchCouncil:Dr S. Brenner, head of the cell biology division of the

M.R.C. Laboratory for Molecular Biology at Cambridge andsuccessor to Dr Max Perutz as director of the Laboratory in1979.

Prof. G. S. Dawes, director of the Nuffield Institute forMedical Research, Oxford, and chairman of the M.R.C.’s Phy-siological Systems and Disorders Board.

Prof. H. J. Evans, director of the M.R.C. Clinical and Popu-lation Cytogenetics Unit in Edinburgh.

Prof. R. Hoffenberg, William Withering professor of medi-cine at the University of Birmingham.

Prof. W. V. Shaw, head of the department of biochemistryat the University of Leicester and chairman of the M.R.C.’sCell Biology and Disorders Board.

1. Copies are available from the Drug Information Centre, The London Hospi-tal, Whitechapel, London E1 1BB. Price 25p plus postage, payable to theCity and East London Area Health Authority.

Association of Clinical PathologistsThe following officers have been elected to the Council: Pre-

sident : Prof. Norman Ashton; President-Elect: Sir Robert

Williams; Vice-Presidents: Dr C. Giles, Prof. I. Rannie; Chair-man of Council: Dr A. C. Hunt; Hon. Secretary: Dr G. W.Pennington; Hon. Treasurer: Dr J. Burston. Dr W. M. Edgar,Dr R. P. Towers, Prof. C. L. Berry, and Prof. N. F. C. Gowinghave been elected members of the Council for the period1978-81.

The autumn general meeting of the Association for Research in In-fant and Child Development will be held at the Province of NatalCentre, 30 Guildford Place, London Vi’C1, on Oct. 21, 1978, at 2.30p.m.

The 2nd meeting of the National Association for Patient Partici-pation in General Practice will be held at the Witts Lecture Theatre,University Medical School, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, on Oct. 21,1978. Information may be obtained from Miss Pauline O’Donnell,Aberdare Health Centre, High Street, Aberdare, Mid Glamorgan.

The Hospital for Sick Children will hold two seminars at GreatOrmond Street, London. The first seminar on music therapy will beheld on Oct. 23, 1978; the second, entitled Temporal Lobe Epilepsyand Temporal Lobectomy, will take place on Oct. 26, 1978. Detailsmay be had from Dr G. Pampiglione, Department of Clinical Neuro-physiology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street,London WC1N 3JH.

Correction

Price’s Textbook of Medicine.- The correct title of this book (Oct.7, p. 768) is Price’s Textbook of the Practice of Medicine.

Diary of the Week

OCT. 15 TO 21

Sunday, 15thINSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY, 330/332 Gray’s Inn Road, London

WC1X8EE10 15 A.M. Mr D. Garfield Davies: Survey of common E.N.T. conditions and

their management

Monday, 16thINSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, St. John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skm, Lisle

Street, London BX’C2H 7BJ4.30 P.M. Dr A. P. Warin: Hair physiology.

Tuesday, 17thINSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY ’

4.30 P.M. Dr I. Sarkany: Physiology of itching.

Wednesday, 18thINSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY, National Hospital, Queen Square, London WC1N

3BG6 P.M. Dr S. Leibowitz. Immumty and inflammation in the nervous system.7 P.M. Dr R. A. C. Hughes: Neurological aspects ofBehcet’s syndrome.

INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY, de Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE55.30. P.M. Dr J. A. C. MacKelth: Adult behaviour disorder and psychiatric

treatment.

RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY, OxfordS P.M. Dr T. J. Peters’ Iron. Some problems from having too much of a good

thing.ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF EDINBURGH, Nicholson Street, Edinburgh

EH8 9DW12 Noon Sir Frederick Catherwood: Professionalism versus unionism.

Thursday, 19thST. MARY’S MEDICAL SCHOOL, London W2 IPG

5.15 P.M. Dr Iain Chalmers: Perinatal mortality.

Friday, 20thINSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY

4.30 P.M. Air Commodore P. F. King: The Eustachian tube and its signifi-cance in flight.

MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, 242 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow6.30 P.M. Prof. J. M. A. Lenihan: Pride and Prejudice-or how to hve with

the environment.