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are no longer newsworthy. For example, the copy for the June issue goes to the printer March 1. Galleys are corrected during April, and on May 1 go the printer to be put in page form. The first issue then comes off the presses June 15. Then, since over a third of T H E JOURNAL circulation goes abroad, usu­ally by surface mail, and the United States circulation goes by third-class mail, some further time elapses between the time when the crisp new JOURNAL is deposited at the post office in Menasha, Wisconsin, and when it is received by the subscriber.

Delay in publication can be avoided if contributors remember a few details, so that queries do not have to be sent out. News Items should be submitted as a separate dou­ble-spaced typescript, ready for the printer ; they should not be merely noted in the body of a letter. Contributors should keep in mind Kipling's five W's—Who, What, Why, When, and Where. We should know what the organization is ; who is involved ; what they are going to do ; why they are doing it (for a lecture this can be taken for granted, but not for a degree honoris causa) ; and when and where the event will occur.

The Meetings, Conferences, Symposia section offers the ophthalmologist the oppor­tunity to summarize his most recent thinking or findings before his entire paper can ap­pear in the literature. To make this service most useful, T H E JOURNAL needs conden­sations of the papers presented, rather than a narration of the meeting. If such ab­stracts are provided us, double-spaced and in a literary form suitable for immediate print­ing, we would hope that our subscribers could learn what is new in ophthalmology before their patients discover the same mate­rial in Time or in the Ladies Home Journal. Here also, delays can be avoided if as soon as a meeting is concluded the person respon­sible for the abstracts would send them to T H E JOURNAL. We do not think it worth­while to publish abstracts received more than a month after the meeting.

As editor of these sections, I am most anx­

ious that they be current, reflect the needs and interests of our readers, and provide up-to-date information. It's always good to hear what is going on, and if you have a question about anything in the News Items, please call on us. We may not know the answer, but we'll try to find someone who does.

Thomas Chalkley

OBITUARY FREDERICK ALLISON DAVIS

(1883-1970) Frederick Allison Davis, emeritus pro­

fessor of ophthalmology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, died in Madison, Wisconsin on January 18, 1970. Born in Weather ford, Texas in 1883, he re­ceived his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1909, served a two-year internship at the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and spent three years in ophthalmology and otolaryngology training at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. Following further study in ophthalmology in London and Vienna, he entered private prac­tice in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1914. In part­nership with the late Drs. Corydon Dwight, the late Eugene Neff, and his long-time friend and associate, Peter A. Duehr in the Davis-Duehr Eye Clinic, Dr. Davis con­tinued in the active practice of ophthalmol­ogy until retirement in 1967 at the age of 84.

Dr. Davis founded the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Division of the University of Wisconsin Medical School in 1925 and served as professor and chairman until 1930. With the separation of ophthalmology and otolaryngology in 1930, the late Dr. Well-wood Nesbit assumed the professorship of otolaryngology and Dr. Davis remained as professor of ophthalmology until his retire­ment in 1954.

He received international recognition for the study, "Primary Tumors of the Optic Nerve (A Phenomenon of Recklinghausen's

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Disease)," and was awarded the Herman Knapp gold medal in 1939, by the eye sec­tion of the American Medical Association for this work. He had a life-long devotion to cataract surgery and was one of the first to perform and popularize the intracapsular extraction. Many of his publications dealt with cataract operations, particularly the in­cision and closure of the globe. He was a member of the American Academy of Oph­thalmology and Otolaryngology Symposium on cataract surgery in 1953.

He was a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology, a member of the American Ophthalmological Society, the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, the Chicago and Milwaukee Ophthalmological Societies, the American Medical Association, and the Wisconsin and Dane County Medical Societies. He was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, honorary medical fraternity, and Nu Sigma Nu medi­cal fraternity, and was its national president in 1926, and honorary grand national presi­dent in 1953.

He is survived by four children, two of whom practiced ophthalmology with him in Madison, Wisconsin.

CORRECTIONS

The following is a correction for the paper "Fluorescein Angiography in Eales Disease," by George Theodossiadis, M.D., which ap­peared in the February, 1970, issue (Am. J. Ophth. 69:273, 1970). The sentences should have read "Fluorescein infiltration also oc­curred through the wall of the new vessels and even in the connective tissue developed around them, contrary to the report of Jutte and Lemke.9 No extravasation or minimal leakage of fluorescein was observed in pa­tients in this series whose disease showed ele­ments of the mirabile type (Figs. 8, 9) .

In the paper, "A Compact Indirect Oph­thalmoscope Providing an Indirect Aerial Image," by Robert V. Spurney (Am. J. Ophth. 69:680, 1970) Figure 4 was incor­

rectly reproduced. The correct reproduction is shown below.

Fig. 4 (Spurney). A normal human fundus is observed with the ophthalmoscope. The image formed is upright ; the macular area is seen at the right in the fundus picture.

BOOK REVIEWS DYSGENESIS MESODERMALIS OF THE IRIS

AND THE CORNEA. By P. P. H. Alke-made. Springfield, Charles C Thomas, 1969. Clothbound, 206 pages, index, refer­ences, 73 figures in black and white, 6 color figures. Price : $19.50. This monograph, for which the author re­

ceived the Waardenburg prize of the Neth­erlands Ophthalmological Society, reviews first the primary dysgenesis of the iris and the chamber angle. This is usually referred to as Rieger's syndrome. The main features are hypoplasia of the iris stroma and posterior embryotoxon with corneo-iridal adhesions. Secondary glaucoma is a frequent complica­tion. This is a hereditary disease transmitted as a Mendelian dominant.

Closely related is the mesoiermal dysgen-