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to ultra-violet light is highly complex, and the possi-bility that the pro-vitamin is not ergosterol at all butan impurity is still not wholly excluded.

SIR WILLIAM GLYN-JONES.

WE regret to learn of the death of Sir William

Glyn-Jones, the well-known pioneer in modern

pharmaceutical developments, which occurred fromcerebral haemorrhage on Friday last, Sept. 9th, atVancouver, where he had recently gone to take upthe position of chairman of council of the newlyformed Proprietary Articles Trade Association ofCanada. He did more than anyone of his generationto raise the standard of the pharmaceutical profession.

William Glyn-Jones was born in Worcester in 1869,and spent his whole life in the interests of his chosencalling. As an assistant in a chemist’s establishmentin the east end of London, he found time to eat hisdinners, and was called to the Bar in 1904. But hehad already come into public view, for as much as30 years ago he founded an association to put downcertain abuses in the trade of patent medicines whichwere oppressing the best sort of retail chemists. Atthat time the sale of some obviously quack nostrumswas used by unscrupulous traders to attract customersto their shops, the articles being sold at prices whichyielded no profit. Dispensing chemists who did notrelish these advertising methods were suffering intheir conduct of legitimate business, and the newassociation was designed to put a stop to the evil bybringing manufacturers, wholesale druggists, and retailchemists together to remedy the situation. Regula-tions accordingly were made by which no proprietary- medicine, the makers of which belonged to the associa-tion, could be sold below a fixed minimum price ;any retailer who violated the rules was placed on a" stop list" and prevented from obtaining furthersupplies of any of the " protected " articles. Theeconomics of this arrangement were subjected tocertain criticism from medical men ; by bringingtogether the members of all sections of the drug trade,it was demonstrated that what pharmacy had longbeen looking for-namely, an organised plan ofdevelopment-had been found. Those who saw inthe movement nothing but a plan for securing tochemists a profit on proprietary medicine learned toappreciate that the outcome has undoubtedly beenfor the public benefit.

Sir William Glyn-Jones used the dominant positionin pharmacy which he had now obtained in a worthyway. The formation of the Chemists’ DefenceAssociation, the severance from the PharmaceuticalSociety’s activities of the trading interests of pharmacy,the union of the Society with the British Pharma-ceutical Society, and last but by no means least theestablishment of the pharmacological laboratories,were all movements in which he played a prominentpart. As Member of Parliament for Stepney from1910 to 1918 he took an active part in the framingof shop hours legislation; he served his craft inParliament manfully, sometimes in opposition to themedical view, when the National Health InsuranceActs were in the making; and, as an expert onpoison and pharmacy law, he influenced legislationin the Dangerous Drugs Acts. In 1918 he becamesecretary and registrar of the Pharmaceutical Society,which post he held until he took up his importantduties in Canada. He was knighted in 1919 in recog-nition of his eminent services to the pharmaceuticalprofession. ____

THE NEW PRINCIPAL OF THE ROYALVETERINARY COLLEGE.

Prof. Frederick T. Hobday, veterinary surgeon tothe King, has been appointed Principal of the RoyalVeterinary College of London in succession to SirJohn McFadyean. From the time of his qualifyingin 1892, he has devoted himself to the various aspects,scientific and practical, of veterinary medicine andsurgery. He first attracted the attention of the

College authorities by the development of the out-patients’ clinic which, as professor of materia medicaand therapeutics, came under his control. This valu-able work he enlarged from the teaching aspect untiltwo clinical assistants had to be appointed to assistin the administration and teaching. His next activity,which was largely recorded in various scientific andveterinary journals, comprised the investigation ofanaesthetics for use in veterinary surgery, and in1899 the College awarded him the John Henry Steelmemorial medal as a recognition of the practicalnature of his labours. In 1904 he became editor ofthe Veterinary Journal and shortly after a memberof the Examining Board of the Veterinary College,and is now a member of the Council. During thewar he was in command of one of the largest of ourveterinary hospitals, while scientific medicine oweshim a particular debt in that he was one of the chiefpromoters of the movement which brought intobeing the Section of Comparative Medicine at theRoyal Society of Medicine.

WE regret to record the sudden death, on Sept. 12th,of Dr. Sydney Rawson Wilson, senior anfesthetist tothe Royal Infirmary, Manchester. Dr. Wilson, whowas 45 years old, has recently been working onimpurities in ether, and published in THE LANCET ofMay 28th last an article on " Ether " Convulsions,which has given rise to much correspondence in ourcolumns. It is feared that he was overcome whileexperimenting with an anaesthetic.

The Services.ROYAL NAVAL MEDICAL SERVICE.

Surg. Comdr. R. Thompson is placed on the Retd. Listwith the rank of Surg. Capt.

J. H. Nicolson and R. Murray to be Surg. Lts.

ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE.

Surg. Comdr. A. G. L. Reade to Ramillies for 14 days’training. -

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS.

Maj. J. A. Clark retires on retd. pay and is granted therank of Lt.-Col.

Capts. to be Majs. (Prov.) : J. W. Malcolm, G. K.Maurice (remains seed.), and R. F. Walker.

Capt. R. Willan, late W. Afr. Med. Serv., to be temp. Lt.and temporarily relinquishes the rank of Capt.

ARMY DENTAL CORPS.

Temp. Lts., Dental Surgs., Gen. List, to be Lts. : J. B.Cowie and R. E. Edwards.

TERRITORIAL ARMY RESERVE OF OFFICERS.

Qrmr. and Lt. W. H. Brown resigns his commn. andretains his rank.

Capt. J. B. Scott to be Maj.Capt. R. G. Michelmore resigns his commn. and retains

his rank.Lt. J. L. Johnston to be Capt.General Hospitals : Capt. D. Mallam resigns his commn.

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ROYAL AIR FORCE.

Flight Lt. F. P. Schofield is granted a permanent com-mission in this rank.

Maj. A. K. Macdonald, Army Dental Corps, is granted atemporary commission as Squadron Leader on attachmentto the R.A.F.

Flight Lt. G. A. Ballantyne, D.F.C. (Capt., Army DentalCorps), relinquishes his temporary commission on return toArmy duty.Squadron Leaders: P. H. Young to Headquarters

Coastal Area ; D. McLaren, to Hospital Orderlies TrainingDepot, Halton.

Flight Lts.: G. J. Griffiths to Basrah Combined Hospital;J. M. Maxwell (Quartermaster, Med.) to R.A.F. GeneralHospital, Iraq.