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Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of GlasgowOn Jan. 31 Princess Alexandra visited the college and was

shown the almost completed library and reading-room whichis the gift of Sir Hugh Fraser. As an honorary fellow of theRoyal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Princess Alexandrabecomes an honorary fellow of the college, and she was

presented with her diploma.

Royal College of Obstetricians and GynaecologistsEdgar-Gentilli prize.-The Council offers this annual prize

( 100) to a doctor (not necessarily a fellow or member of thecollege) for original work on cancer of the female genital tract,including chorion carcinoma. Essays or articles should besent to the honorary secretary of the college, 27, Sussex Place.Regent’s Park, London, N.W.I.

North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological SocietyThe following officers have been elected for 1963:President, Dr. William Hunter; vice-presidents, Dr. W. Calvert,

Miss M. Mayeur, Mr. T. J. Redman, Miss C. E. Peaker, Prof.J. K. Russell; hon. treasurer, Mr. T. B. Fitzgerald; hon. generalsecretary, Mr. David Smith; hon. reporting secretary, Mr. C. J.Dewhurst.

Institut Francais du Royaume-UniOn Thursday, Feb. 14, at 6.15 P.M., at the Institute,

Queensberry Place, London, S.W.7, Prof. M. Etienne Wolff,head of the laboratory of experimental embryology at theCollege de France, will speak on Les Agents Provocateurs deMalformations.

Shortened Nursing Course for GraduatesAn experimental course is being arranged at the Nightingale

Training School, St. Thomas’s Hospital, for students who holda university degree, or who have " undergone a period ofcomparable intellectual discipline ", which will enable them tobecome State-registered nurses in two years and two months.The content of the course will be similar to that followed bythe normal student nurse, but, as numbers will be few, a closeintegration between practical and theoretical studies will bepossible.As graduates are usually suspected of being less practical than their

less academic sisters, stress will be laid on attaining high standardsin bedside nursing care. The generosity of the King Edward’s Fundfor London and the governors of St. Thomas’s has permitted theappointment of a sister tutor and a clinical instructor to the coursefor an experimental period of six years, and also the payment of atraining allowance to the graduates equivalent to that of a second- andthird-year student nurse. It is expected that those with a naturalaptitude for nursing will realise at the end of their training that afurther period in the wards will be necessary to widen their experienceand develop their clinical judgment. The Nightingale certificate willnot be awarded until after six months’ satisfactory service as a staffnurse; but the nurse will be free to leave after State registration.A period of secondment to a psychiatric hospital and an obstetric

unit will be arranged during the training, and it is hoped that studentswill be given the opportunity to see something of the work of healthvisitors and district nurses.

Mr. A. D. Bonham-Carter is to succeed Sir Alexander Maxwellas chairman of the board of governors of University CollegeHospital, London.

The James Smellie bursaries for 1963 have been awarded to Dr.Robert Prosser and Dr. M. B. Lennard.

Under the auspices of the British Council, Prof. W. W. Mushin,Prof. T. C. Gray, and Dr. J. F. Nunn are to visit the U.S.S.R. inFebruary, and Dr. Mary Pickford, Hungary in March.

The next meeting of the London Jewish Society will be on Feb. 14,at 8.15 P.M., at Woburn House, Upper Woburn Place, W.C.1, whenRabbi Louis Jacobs will speak on the religion-science relationship.

The annual general meeting of the Ladies’ Guild of the RoyalMedical Benevolent Fund will be held at the Royal College ofObstetricians and Gynaecologists, 27, Sussex Place, Regent’s Park,London, N.W. 1, at 2.30 P.M. on March 19, when Sir Theodore Foxwill speak on the Flying Doctor.

Diary of the Week

FEB. 10 TO 16Monday, 11thUNIVERSITY OF LONDON- 5.30 P.M. (Senate House, Malet Street, W.C.I.) Dr. M. F. Perutz.

Structure of Proteins. (John Coffin lecture.)POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON, Ducane Road, W.12

4 P.M. Dr. Brian Ackner: Modern Drug Treatment of Psychiatric Illness.ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn Road, W.C.1

4.30 P.M. (Department of pathology.) Dr. N. P. Bhandari: Place ofVaccination in Smallpox Control.

Tuesday, 12thBRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL FEDERATION

5.30 P.M. (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, KeppelStreet, W.C.I.) Dr. C. E. Gordon Smith: Factors Influencing theTransmission of Virus Infections from Animals to Man.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole Street, W.18 P.M. Psychiatry. Dr. G. A. Foulds : Basic Personality and the Symptom

Complex in Psychiatry.INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, Lisle Street, W.C.2

5.30 P.M. Prof. C. D. Calnan: Reactions to Topical Agents.MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY

8 P.M. (Medical School, University of Manchester.) Section of Surgery.Mr. A. H. Randell Champion, Dr. R. G. Gordon Jones, Mr.P. H. D. Lewars: Cleft Palate.

Wednesday, 13thUNIVERSITY OF LONDON

5.30 P.M. (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.) Dr. W.Stanley Hartroft (Toronto) : Production of Infarcts by Means of aThrombogenic Diet in Experimental Animals.

POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON2 P.M. Prof. J. L. Gowans: Problems in Cellular Immunology.

INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY5.30 P.M. Dr. J. A. Dudgeon: Virus Disease Affecting the Skin.

INSTITUTE OF DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Brompton, S.W.3 .

5 P.M. Mr. 0. S. Tubbs: Surgical Treatment of Left to Right Shunts.ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL

5.15 P.M. (Department of medicine.) Prof. Erwin Stengel: Managementof Attempted Suicide in the General Hospital.

Thursday, 14thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C.2

4 P.M. Sir Stanford Cade: The Lasting Dynamism of John Hunter.(Hunterian oration.)

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, Gower Street, W.C.15.30 P.M. Prof. F. Bergel: Therapeutic Future of Larger and Larger

Molecules.BRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL FEDERATION

5.30 P.M. (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.) Dr.Hannah Steinberg: Measuring Effects of Drugs upon Behaviour.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE5 P.M. Ophthalmology. Mr. Murray Falconer, Mr. S. J. H. Miller,

Dr. Gwyn Morgan: The Sturge-Weber Syndrome.INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY

5.30 P.M. Dr. A. W. Frankland: Reactions to Insect Bites.ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL, W.2

5 P.M. (Wright-Fleming Institute.) Mr. Philip Rhodes: Stein-LeventhalSyndrome.

UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS5 P.M. (Queen’s College, Dundee.) Prof. R. A. Gregory: Advances in

Knowledge of Gastrin and the Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome.UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN

4.30 P.M. (University Medical Buildings, Foresterhill.) Dr. D. M. T.Gairdner: Respiratory Failure in the Newborn.

Friday, 15thPOSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON

10 A.M. Mr. J. M. Small: Acute Manifestations of Certain PituitaryTumours.

4 P.M. Dr. D. R. Laurence: Problem of the First Clinical Trial of a Drug.ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE

5.30 P.M. Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. Prof. D. D. Reid:International Comparison in Epidemiology.

5.30 P.M. Experimental Medicine and Therapeutics. Prof. C. de Duve(Louvain), Prof. Fritz Miller (Munich), Dr. Z. A. Cohn (NewYork): Lysosomes.

FACULTY OF RADIOLOGISTS, Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln’s Inn Fields,W.C.2

4.30 P.M. Mr. C. P. Wilson, Dr. A. C. Thackray, Sir Brian Windeyer:Fibroma of the Nasopharynx. -

INSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY, 330, Gray’s Inn Road, W.C.13.30 P.M. Dr. C. H. Edwards: Otoneurological Problems in General

Practice.ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL

4.30 P.M. (Department of pathology.) Prof. A. B. Novikoff (New York):Enzyme Localisation and Ultrastructure of the Liver Cell.

BRITISH TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION5 P.M. (Manson House, 26, Portland Place, W.1.) Dr. A. W. Lees,

Dr. John Aspin, Dr. J. M. Black, Dr. R. H. Andrews: Contacts.PLYMOUTH MEDICAL SOCIETY

8.45 P.M. (North Friary House, Greenbank Terrace, Plymouth.) Dr. RBodley Scott: Chemotherapy of Malignant Disease.

CORRIGENDUM: Intravenous Regional Analgesia.-In this article by Dl-C. McK. Holmes (Feb. 2, p. 245), line 20 on p. 246 should have read:" ... 134 cases with no single ill-effect.