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Medical News.UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.—The following awards

have been announced :-Welsh Prize : A. P. Meiklejohn.Theodore Williams Scholarships : A. H. Hunt (HumanAnatomy), J. W. Litchfield (Physiology), and J. R. Bray-brooks (Pathology). Radcliffe Scholarship in Pharmacology:J. R. Braybrooks and G. S. Grist (equal).UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.—At a congregation

on Nov. 2nd the following degrees were conferred :—

M.D.—T. A. Butcher.M.Chir.-John Gray.M.B. and B.Chir.-J. St C. Elkington, R. A. P. Gray, Alan

Maberly, S. S. Chesser, and J. F. Stent.M.B.—S. D. Isaacs.B.Chir.-A. T. Howell and C. E. Donaldson.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.—Mr. Edwin Deller, LL.D.,previously Academic Registrar, has been appointed to thepost of Principal of the University as from Oct. lst, insuccession to Mr. T. Franklin Sibly, D.Sc., now Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading. In 1920, Dr. Dellerwas appointed assistant secretary to the Royal Society,but returned to the University in 1921 to take up the postof Academic Registrar. From June, 1928, to February,1929, he was acting Principal Officer.ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON.-

A quarterly Comitia of the College was held on Oct. 31st,with Sir John Rose Bradford, the President, in the chair.The following were admitted Members of the College :-

Ilahi Bakhsh, Thomas Henry Booth Bedford, Heward Bell,Denis Hubert Brinton, Philip Ellman, Ishak Kirolos Gayid,Leslie Wakefield Hale, Isidore Liknaitzky, Michael Malk,Arnold Ashley Miles, ’Sinclair Miller, Minocher BamanjiMody, Ganpat Bapuji Mohile, John Barrie Murray, JohnHenry Noble, Henry Edward Nourse, William FrederickHowson Ray, Cuthbert Lawson Stote, Bertrand EdwardTompson, Thomas à Beckett Travers.

Licences to practise were conferred upon 126 candidates(117 men and 9 women) who have passed the Final Examina-tion in Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery of the ConjointBoard and have complied with the by-laws of the College.The following are the names and medical schools of thesuccessful candidates :-

H. S. Atkinson, Oxford and London ; G. 0. Barber, Cambridgeand St. Mary’s ; E. E. Barnett, London ; G. H. Bateman,Oxford and King’s Coll. ; T. S. Belcher, London ; F. Bell,Oxford and St. Thomas’s ; E. Bellamy, Guy’s ; J. H.Bentley, Cambridge and Univ. Coll. ; J. A. K. Brown, /

Manchester; W. D. Brown, Cambridge and London ; D. R. Buchan, Birmingham ; P. C. Chakravorty, Calcuttaand Middlesex ; G. Clarke, Guy’s ; J. P. Collinson, Sheffield ;S. C. S. Cooke, Middlesex ; W. H. C. Croft, Birmingham;J. H. Cyriax, Cambridge and St. Thomas’s ; H. W. Davies,Oxford and King’s CoU.; T. Davies, Cardiff and St. Bart.’s ;C. D. D. de Labilliere, St. Bart.’s ; H. B. A. R. Densham,Guy’s ; A. Eckford, Cambridge and Guy’s ; J. A. Edward,Manchester and St. Bart.’s ; H. G. Edwards, Cardiff andSt. Bart.’s ; Lilian P. Edwards, Royal Free ; M. P. Ellis,Univ. Coll. ; J. F. Fisher, St. Bart.’s ; B. M. Fonseka,Middlesex ; A. M. Fratel, Bombay and Durham ; L. Gabbe,Cape and Guy’s ; D. K. Gaitskell, Guy’s ; H. S. H. Gilmer,Cambridge and St. George’s ; R. McN. Glover, Cambridgeand Westminster: P. E. Glynn, Leeds ; C. G. Gordon-Wilson, London ; G. H. A. Graetz, Cambridge and St. Bart.’sM. B. W. Gray, London ; Bryneilen Griffiths, Cardiff andCharing Cross ; E. Gwynne-Evans, Univ. Coll. ; VernaHackett, Adelaide and Westminster ; R. H. Hadley,Melbourne, Y. A. A. Hammouda, Cairo and St. George’s ;Flora Hargreaves, Univ. Coll. ; C. C. Harvey, Cardiff andUniv. Coll. ; E. Harvey, Oxford and Middlesex; C. F.Hecker, Adelaide and London ; Violet L. de A. Hickson,Westminster ; F. K. S. Hirschfeld, Melbourne and London ;H. B. Hodson, St. Thomas’s ; J. Hopton, St. Bart.’s ;R. H. Hueknall, Birmingham ; Mary A. Hughes, Cardiff andCharing Cross ; E. F. Hunt, St. George’s ; C. S. Kah,Cambridge and St. Thomas’s ; K. S. Keele, Guy’s ; E. J.

Kerr, Birmingham ; H. Y. Khwaja, Bombay and London ;N. Kramer, St. Bart.’s ; M. Lee, Durham and Middlesex ;E. E. Lewis, St. Mary’s ; W. D. Lovelock-Jones, Cardiffand Univ. Coll. ; F. T. F. Lutter, Cambridge andSt. George’s ; R. W. McConnel, Cambridge and King’s Coll. ;E. M. MacLachlan, Guy’s ; F. N. Marshall, Manchester ;Eileen M. Massey, King’s Coll. ; N. D. Matson, Otago andCharing Cross ; E. C. W. Maxwell, Cambridge andSt. Thomas’s ; P. H. Merlin, Birmingham ; T. J. Millin,Dublin ; C. W. Morley, Cambridge and St. Mary’s ; I. B.Morris, Cambridge and Guy’s ; D. P. F. Mulvany, Charing Cross ; W. D. Neill, London ; J. N. O’Reilly, Oxford andMiddlesex ; B. W. Paine, Univ. Coll. ; E. H. Parkinson, Birmingham ; L. H. Peiris, Ceylon and King’s Coll. ;J. Petro, Cambridge and St. George’s ; I. E. Phelps,St. Bart.’s; R. F. A. Philpott. Oxford and St. Thomas’s ;T. B. Pitts, Guy’s ; F. Pomarantz and E. S. Pope, St. Bart.’s;A. C. Price and N. L. Price, Bristol; S. R. C. Price, King’sColl. ; F. S. C. Pritchard, Guy’s ; C. F. H. Quick, Calcuttaand St. Mary’s; J. P. Raban, Middlesex; B. Ram,St. Thomas’s ; J. Richardson, Cambridge and Middlesex ;

Marjorie E. Roberts, Royal Free ; J. A. Rogers, Calcuttaand King’s Coll. ; T. N. Rudd; London ; C. R. Salkeld,Oxford and St. Thomas’s ; L. Savronsky, London ; J. G.Soadding, Middlesex ; D. Sheehan, Manchester; B. C.Singh, Calcutta and Univ. Coll. ; E. Sladen, Middlesex ;F. J. G. Slater, Cambridge and Durham ; J. H. Smith,Cambridge and St. Thomas’s ; J. 0. Smith, Melbourne andSt. Bart.’s ; A. Somerville, Sheffield ; P. D. B. Spence,Edinburgh and Guy’s ; F. R. Stansfield, Leeds ; J. E. S.Stephens, Cambridge and St. Bart.’s ; T. Stephens, Cardiffand London ; M. Sternfeld, Freiburg and London ; MurielH. Steven, King’s Coll. ; G. D. Stilwell, St. Thomas’s;H. J. Stracey, Madras and St. Thomas’s ; B. L. Taneja,Punjab and Guy’s ; J. M. Taylor, St. Bart.’s ; T. H. E.Taylor-Jones, King’s Coll. ; E. G. Thomas, Cardiff andUniv. Coll. ; J. C. T. Tregarthen, Guy’s ; C. E. H. Turner,London; G. S. Walker, Oxford and Univ. Coll. ; C. J.Waring, London ; J. H. Watkin, St. Bart.’s; K. Watman,Middlesex ; V. W. L. Wells, Guy’s ; T. H. N. Whitehurst,St. Bart.’s ; and T. H. Wilson, St. Thomas’s.

Dr. John Hay, Dr. F. E. Fremantle, M.P., and Dr. J. B.Leathes were elected to the Council of the College, andDr. E. P. Poulton gave faith as an examiner in medicine.Sir Francis Champneys was re-elected a representative ofthe College on the Central Midwives Board, and Dr. II.Letheby Tidy was elected a member of the committee ofmanagement. Dr. Robert Hutchison and Dr. James Collierwere elected members of the Mackenzie Mackinnon ResearchFund Cbmmittee. Dr. J. H. Abram and Dr. A. S. Barneswere re-elected to represent the College on the Court ofGovernors of the University of Liverpool and the Universityof Birmingham respectively, while Dr. A. S. Woodwarkwas re-elected as representative on the Central Council forDistrict Nursing. The President announced that Surgeon-Commander Sheldon Francis Dudley had been appointedMilroy Lecturer for 1931, and that the Jenks MemorialScholarship had been awarded to Francis Sansome MitchellHeggs. He also announced that permission had beengranted to the Ophthalmological Society to hold a receptionat the College on April 3rd next on the occasion of its jubilee,and permission was granted to a request that the SavillMemorial Oration might be delivered at the College. TheRegistrar announced that Dr. J. W. Springthorpe, ofMelbourne, had applied for the restoration of the diplomaof Member which he had resigned in 1919.A communication was received from the Home Office

that by an Order of Council made on August 15th, 1929,Part III. of the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920, has been appliedto the esters of morphine and their respective salts, and toany preparation, admixture, and extract containing them.-A communication was also received from the Universityof Wales announcing that the Advisory Board of Medicinehad been recently dissolved.-A report was received fromDr. Fremantle, who had represented the College at theImperial Social Hygiene Congress held in London in Julylast, in which he commented upon the increased interesttaken by the public in the subjects before the Congress.

Dr. R. A. Young presented reports from the Committeeof Management concerning alterations in connexion with theregulations for the First and Final Examinations for theL.R.C.P., M.R.C.S.—Dr. Sidney Phillips presented the

treasurer’s annual statement of receipts and expenditure,and auditors were re-elected. Dr. Arnold Chaplin statedthat among donations to the library during the last quarterwas an account of the last illness of the Earl of Beaconsfieldin the words of the late Dr. Mitchell Bruce.

After receiving the quarterly report of the examinersfor the licence on the examination held in July last, thePresident dissolved the Comitia.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF EDINBURGH.-Out of 15 candidates entered, the following 8 have passedthe final professional examination and have been grantedthe diploma of L.D.S. :-

George Morton Smith McGibbon, Sugra Mohammed Ali,William Ainslie Elder Duncan, Walter Pearson Neilson,Robert Hugh Dewar, John Ellis Sprunt, Thomson AlexanderFerguson, and Donald Forbes Johnstone.

The following passed in the subject of pathology :-Robert Kirkwood Nicol Clarkson and Robert Pearson Neilson.

UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN.—On Saturday last Mr.William Pearson, surgeon to the Adelaide Hospital, Dublin,was elected Professor of Surgery in the University insuccession to the late Mr. T. E. Gordon.

Mr. Pearson, who is a son of Mr. C. Y. Pearson, for many yearsProfessor of Surgery at University College, Cork, was educatedat Trinity College, Dublin, where among other achievementshe won the Travelling Prize in Surgery. In 1910 he became aFellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and in thesame year was appointed assistant to the Professor of Surgery inDublin University. During the war he was for some timeengaged in work for the British Red Cross Society in France,and later as consulting surgeon in Sussex. He was twicementioned in dispatches, and retired with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Since then he has been surgeon to the AdelaideHospital, Dublin, and to the University of Pensions SurgicalHospital at Blackrock.

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WELLCOME HISTORICAL MEDICAL MUSEUM.—On.Monday, Nov. llth, at a reception to the Egypt ExplorationSociety, Mr. Warren Dawson will give an address on EgyptianMagic and Medicine. The reception will be at the Museumat 8.30 P.M.

HUNTERIAN SOCIETY.-A meeting of this Societywill be held at The Cutlers’ Hall, Warwick-lane, London,E.C., at 9 P.M., on Monday, Nov. 18th, when Earl Howe,Mr. E. B. Turner, and Dr. P. B. Spurgin will take part in adiscussion on The Doctor and the Motorist.

SOCIETY OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH.-Theannual dinner of this society will be held at the PiccadillyHotel, London, W., on Thursday, Nov. 14th, at 7.30 P.M.(Reception at 7.10.) Tickets are obtainable from theExecutive Secretary at 1, Upper Montague-street, Russell-square, W.C. 1.

BRITISH SCIENCE GUILD.-At 4.30 P.M. on Tuesday,Nov. 19th, at the Goldsmiths’ Hall, Foster-lane, London,E.C., Sir Walter Fletcher, F.R.S., secretary of the MedicalResearch Council, will deliver the Norman Lockyer Lecture.His subject will be Medical Research : the Tree and theFruit, and tickets may be had from the secretary of theGuild at 6, John-street, Adelphi, W.C. 2.LONDON IRISH MEDICAL GOLFING SOCIETY.-At

this society’s week-end meeting at Sandwich there were63 entries for the Canny Ryall Cup, and the winner wasE. T. Wright. E. T. McElligott and C. Petit tied for the O’Malley Cup, and Petit won on a replay. For the LettCup D. S. Gordon and E. T. Wright tied with E. S. A.Crawford and C. L. Wilson ; Gordon and Wright won thereplay. The Cahill Trophy was won by D. R. Wheeler, theCaptain’s Prize by E. T. Wright, the Juniors’ Prize byR. L. Rea, the Hidden Nine by D. R. Wheeler, and theEclectic Competition by W. Calwell and D. R. Wheeler (tie).COLLEGE OF PESTOLOGY.-The annual dinner and

ball took place at the Piccadilly Hotel on Nov. lst. Owingto the illness of the new President, the Duke of Sutherland,the chair was taken by Sir Thomas Horder, who pointed outthat the intermediate host between the microbe and thehuman being was the pest, and that to deal with this inter-mediary was everybodv’s business, and therefore nobody’s.He related the work of the College to the problem of slum-clearance, for as long as slums existed it was impossible tofree the country of pests. The toast of the Society wasproposed by Captain W. S. Saunders, M.P., and respondedto by Mr. Moore Hogarth, who traced the continued usefulnessof the College and declared that we were a bug-ridden country,and that it would be impossible to get all the bugs of themetropolis into a container as large as the Tower of London.PRESENTATION TO DR. JANE WALKER.-A dinner

was held at the East Anglian Sanatorium, Nayland, Col-chester, on Oct. 24th, to celebrate the seventieth birthdayof Dr. Jane Walker, its principal. Dr. G. E. Soltaupresided, and Dr. G. H. Metcalfe proposed the toastof Dr. Jane Walker. He said that the sanatorium,which was opened nearly thirty years ago, was knownnot only in Suffolk and East Anglia. but throughoutthe world. Dr. Vere Pearson spoke of the vitality andenthusiasm shown by Dr. Walker. not only in her medicalwork but in her interest in music, literature, and art. Thechairman said that many of the former medical residents andmatrons had desired to join in giving Dr. Walker a tangibleexpression of their feelings towards her. She handed a bagof gold from past and present patients and members of thestaff of the sanatorium to Dr. Walker.

FINANCE OF THE MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.—Thereport for 1928, which has just been issued, again shows aconsiderable expansion of work. At 6271 the number ofin-patients treated to a conclusion was an increase of 759,and the average number of occupied beds was 340-18,compared with 329-45 in 1927. The increase is partiallyaccounted for by the provision of facilities at the convalescenthome for surgical cases at an earlier stage of convalescence.A decrease in costs has resulted, the average weekly costof each in-patient having fallen bv Is. 7d. to J64 15s. 1.15d.,and the total cost per head from 215 ls. 4.46d. to 913 9s. 8.68d.The number of out-patients (52,580) is an increase of 3562.There was a fractional increase in the cost in this department,a greater proportion of the time of the dispensary staffhaving been required owing to the growth in the numberof patients. The larger number of resident patients increasedthe expenditure bv ,E1996 to jBlOO.068. which the governorsregard as very satisfactory in view of the cost of the con-tributory superannuation scheme. The total income wentup from £80,177 to £83,515. The grant from the HospitalSaturday Fund fell from £4475 to £3230. The recommenda,-tions of a joint committee of the governors and the medicalcommittee are resulting in better conditions for the nursingstaff.

QUEEN ALENANDItA’S HOSPITAL FOR OFFICERS.-The tenth annual reunion dinner of this hospital was held onOct. 30th at the Hotel Cecil, under the chairmanship ofMajor W. B. Binnie, a former patient. Mr. Herbert Patersonread a message of good wishes from the Princess Victoria ;Lord Waring proposed the health of the former patients,and Colonel F. R. Hyba,rt, the senior officer, replied.UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM DENTAL CLINICAL

BOARD.-Four post-graduate lectures will be given at theDental Hospital, Great Charles-street, Birmingham, at 5 P.M.,on Thursdays, Nov. 14th and 28th, and Dec. 5th and 12th.The first lecture will be by Mr. Harold Round on Fracturesof the Jaws. Further particulars may be had from theClerk to the Board at the University.A RADIUM CANCER CLINIC.—Lord Moynihan,

President of the Royal College of Surgeons, last week openeda radium cancer clinic at Burnley Victoria Hospital, ofwhich Dr. J. H. Watson has been appointed director. Itis proposed that the clinic should have 1 g. of radium; thefirst instalment, already in use, consists of 340 mg.A LICENSED VICTUALLER’S BED.-A bed in the

Victoria ward of St. John’s Hospital, Lewisham, has beenendowed by the Blackheath Division of the LicensedVictuallers and Beersellers’ Protection Society.

I PRESENTATION TO A MEDICAL MAN.-Last week apresentation was made to Dr. G. S. Pollard on his retirement,after 23 years’ service, as honorary medical director ofPaulton Memorial Hospital, near Bristol. He has been amember of the medical staff for 43 years. The presentation,from the members of the medical and nursing staffs and themanagement committee of the hospital, consisted of anarmchair, a cheque, and an album containing the names ofthe subscribers.THE ROYAL FAMILY AND HOSPITALS.—On Monday

Princess Marie Louise laid the foundation-stone of the newQueen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital at Hammersmith.—Last week Princess Louise. Duchess of Argyll, opened anew isolation hospital (60 beds) which has been built by theHendon urban council, at an approximate cost of £70,000.—The new X ray department of Wembley Hospital has beenopened by Prince Arthur of Connaught. The foundation-stone of the institution was laid exactlv three years ago,and the hospital, which cost nearly £30,000, was opened freeof debt. The accommodation is already insufficient, andplans are being made for enlargement.-On Thursday inlast week the Duke of York opened a new pavilion of GrindonHall Tuberculosis Sanatorium belonging to the corporationof Sunderland.

Medical Diary.SOCIETIES.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole-street, W. -

MONDAY. Nov. llth.-5 P.M., WAR. Paper:—Lieut.-Colonel T. B. Layton: The Surgical Aspects of theTransport of the Wounded.

TUESDAY.—5 P.M., THERAPFUTICS. Communication :-Dr..J. H. Burn, Dr. S. W’okes, and others : The Useof Frgot. A discussion will follow. 8.30 P.M.,PSYCHIATRY (at the Wellcome Historical MedicalMuseum, 54, Wigmore-street, London, W’.). Presi-dential Address :-Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones :Superstition.

WEDNESDAY.-5.30 P.M., SURGERY : SUBSECTION OFPROCTOLOGY. Pathological Meeting preceded bv a

discussion on Complications of Operations for Piles,to be opened by Mr. Cecil Rowntree (President of theSubsection). Cases and Specimens :—Mr. Cecil A. Joll:Combined Abdomino-perineal Excision of the Rectumand Wertheim’s Hysterectomy for Carcinoma of theRecto-vaginal Septum ; Abdomino-nerineal Excisionof Rectum for Endometrioma. Mr. E. T. C. Milligan:Specimen Illustrating Earlv Carcinoma of the Colon;Two Cases Illustrating Peri-recta,l Swellings. Mr.Lionel Norbury and others will also show specimens.

THURSDAY.—8.30 P.M., NEUROLOGY. Clinical Meeting atthe National Hospital, Queen-square, W.C.

FRIDAY.-5 P.M., BALNEOLOGY. Paper: Dr. G. L. KerrPringle. 8 P.M., ORSTETRICS. Specimens: Mr.Clifford White will show two specimens. ShortPapers :—Dr. J. Estcourt Hughes: A Case ofFIvMatidiform Mole with Multiple Small SyncytialInfarction of the Lungs. Dr. Kathleen Vaughan:Maternal Mortality and its Relation to the Shape ofthe Female Pelvis. Discussion on the Report of theDepartmental Committee on the Training of Mid-wives. Onener : Dr. Herbert R. Spencer. 8.30 P.M.,ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS. Paper:—Dr. Jessie E.Sheret: Massive Collapse of the Lungs.

BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY.SATURDAY (to-day), Nov. 9th.—2.30 P.M. (in the Depart-

ment of Physiology, University of Liverpool): 129thMeeting.