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International Union Against CancerThe International Union Against Cancer, with funds

provided by the American Cancer Society, will awardEleanor Roosevelt fellowships for cancer research to

experienced investigators who wish to broaden their

experience by a period of study at a single institution inanother country. The fellowships are for a 12-month

period from March 1, 1974. Application forms (whichmust be returned by Sept. 1) and further details may behad from the International Union Against Cancer, P.O.Box 400, 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland.

Royal Photographic Society of Great BritainThe Society’s medical group has awarded The Lancet

trophy for 1972 to Mr R. M. Callender, of UnileverResearch, Isleworth Laboratories, for his illustrations of thecapillary structure of human gingiva.! Entries from MissJulie Dorrington (Department of Medical Illustration,St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London) and Miss MarianHudson (Department of Medical Photography, CharingCross Hospital Medical School, London) were highlycommended.

1. Med. biol. Illust. 1972, 22, 238.

Diary of the Week

FBBRUARY 4 TO 10

Monday, 5thROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS

6 P.M. (Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London Wl.)Dr John Dobbing: Another Vulnerability of the DevelopingHuman Brain. (Blake Marsh lecture.)

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON5.30 P.M. (University College, Gower Street, Wl.) Prof. Ruth Sager

(New York): Genetic and Physical Studies of ChloroplastD.N.A. in Chlamydomonas-Mapping of Chloroplast D.N.A.;Molecular Basis of Non-Mendelian Inheritance; SomeEvolutionary Considerations.

Tuesday, 6thROYAL COLLEGE OF PATHOLOGISTS

5.30 P.M. (Royal Society, 6 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1.)Prof. A. C. Lendrum: Aschoff’s " Sort of Hyaline Sub-stance ". (Kettle lecture.)

INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, St. John’s Hospital for Diseases of theSkin, Lisle Street, London WC2

4.30 P.M. Prof. H. Blank: Skin Diseases of the Subtropics.INSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY, 330/332 Gray’s Inn Road,

London WC1X SEE5.30 P.M. Dr Ronald Hinchcliffe: Clinical Measurement of Vestibulary

Function.ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1

5.15 P.M. Dr I. Mackay (Australia): The Immunology of Liver Disease.MEDICINE TODAY

11.20 P.M. (B.B.C.-l) Dr John Woodall, Prof. David Marsden,Dr David Parkes: The Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease.

Wednesday, 7thROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, 11 St. Andrew’s Place, Regent’s Park,

London NWl 4LE5.35 P.M. Dr John Apley: " Which of you by taking thought can add

one cubit unto his stature ? "-Psychosomatic Illness inChildren: A Modern Synthesis. (Charles West lecture.)

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON5.30 P.M. (University College.) Professor Sager: Genetic and Physical

Studies of Chloroplast D.N.A. in Chlamydomonas-PhysicalOrganisation of Chloroplast D.N.A.; Some Functions ofChloroplast Genes; Comparison of Chloroplast and Mito-chondrial Genetic Systems.

ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL, Hammersmith Hospital,London W12 OHS

2 P.M. Dr Milica Brozovic: Laboratory Control of AnticoagulantTherapy.

INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY4.30 P.M. Dr R. H. Meara: The Atopic Syndrome.

INSTITUTE OF DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Brompton, London SW35 P.M. Mr W. P. Cleland: Secondary Lung Cancer.

INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY, The National Hospital, Queen Square,London WC1N 3BG

6 P.M. Dr R. W. Ross-Russell: Experimental Cerebral CEdema dueto Ischsemia.

7 P.M. Prof. John Marshall: The Management of Acute Stroke.

INSTITUTE OF ORTHOPPEDICS, 234 Great Portland Street, London WlB6AD

6 P.M. Prof. J. I. P. James: Scoliosis-Clinical Patterns and Prognosis.8.15 P.M. Mr C. W. Manning: Scoliosis-Treatment.

INSTITUTE OF UROLOGY, 172 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC28 8JE5 P.M. Mr J. D. Fergusson: Carcinoma of the Prostate.

LIVERPOOL MEDICAL INSTITUTION, 114 Mount Pleasant, L3 5SR8 P.M. Prof. A. J. Harding Rains: Aspects of Laparotomy and Gall-

bladder Surgery.MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY

5 P.M. (New Medical School.) Medicine. Prof. Reginald Hall: NewDevelopments in Assessing Thyroid Function.

UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE1.30 P.M. Prof. P. B. Garland: Dietary Deficiencies and the Mito-

chondrial Membrane.

Thursday, 8thROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL

6 P.M. Dr J. E. Riding: Medical Writing.INSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY

5.30 P.M. Dr Hinchcliffe: Clinical Measurement of Auditory Function.WESTMINSTER MEDICAL SCHOOL, 17 Horseferry Road, London SW1P

2AR5.15 P.M. Mr Christopher Wastell, Dr Ronald Zeegen, Dr J. A.

Gleeson: Haematemesis.UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, Foresterhill

5 P.M. Dr John Wilson: Psyche and Soma in Childhood Illnesses.

Saturday, 10thNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, The Ridgeway, London

NW7 1AA4.30 P.M. Prof. M. H. Cohen (Chicago) : Aspects of Aggregation in the

Cellular Slime Moulds.UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

8.30 A.M. (Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.) Dr Colin McDougall:Peripheral Nerve Changes in Leprosy.

9.45 A.M. Mr R. Gye: Peripheral Nerve Homografts.

Appointments

South East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board:CARRUTHERS, R. K., CH.M.St. And., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.E. : consultant

urologist, Canterbury and Isle of Thanet hospital groups.FEARN, C. B. d’A.,.M.B.Cantab., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.E. : consultant in

orthopaedics and accident surgery, Brighton and Lewes, andMid-Sussex hospital groups.

GRAY, ANN B., M.B.Lond., M.F.C.M., D.C.H., D.P.H.: consultantpsychiatrist, Canterbury, Isle of Thanet, South-East Kent, andTunbridge Wells and Leybourne hospital groups.

LONG, DAVID, M.D.Lond., M.R.C.P., F.R.C.PATH.: consultant pathologist,Eastbourne and Hastings hospital groups.

MAw, D. S. J., M.B.Lond., M.R.C.P.: consultant in general medicine,Tunbridge Wells and Leybourne hospital group.

O’RIORDAN, R. J., M.B.Sydney, M.R.C.PSYCH.: consultant psychiatrist,St. Augustine’s and Isle of Thanet hospital groups.

PORTER, C. A., M.B.Lond., M.R.C.P., D.OBST.: consultant paediatrician,South-East Kent, Canterbury, and Isle of Thanet hospital groups.

URSELL, WILLIAM, M.B.Lond., M.R.C.O.G., F.R.C.S. : consultant ob-stetrician and gynaecologist, South-East Kent hospital group.

VOLLUM, DOROTHY I., M.B.Lond., M.R.C.P., D.C.H. : consultant derma-tologist, Lewisham and Seamen’s hospital groups.

WALKER, M. M., M.R.C.S., D.M.R.D.: consultant radiologist, Dartfordand Darenth hospital group.

South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board:BATEMAN, L. P. B., B.M.Oxon., M.R.C.PATH. : consultant ha:matoiogist,

Chichester and Graylingwell, and Worthing, Southlands, anddistrict hospital groups.

BEESON, A. A., M.B.Durh., M.R.C.P., D.P.M. : consultant geriatrician,North West Surrey hospital group, including duties with SurreyCounty Council.

CASEY, E. B., M.D., B.SC.N.U.I., M.R.C.P., M.R.C.P.I.: consultant inphysical medicine and director of the Wolfson Medical Re-habilitation Centre, St. George’s hospital group and the SouthWest Metropolitan R.H.B.

CLEIN, G. P., M.D.Cantab., M.R.C.P. : consultant general physician,South West London hospital group and St. George’s Hospital.

HoARE, J. R., M.B.Lond., F.R.C.S.E. : consultant orthopsedic surgeon,Farnham and Brookwood hospital group.

KIRIELLA, L. P. B., F.R.c.s.: consultant in charge of emergency de-partment, St. Helier hospital group.

OWEN-SMITH, B. D., M.B.Cantab., M.R.C.P.(U.K.), D.PHYS.Mn!-consultant in physical medicine and rheumatology, Chichesterand Graylingwell hospital group.

STEWART, J. D. M., M.B.Cantab., F.R.C.S. : consultant orthopaed1:surgeon, Chichester and Graylingwell, and Worthing, South’lands, and district hospital groups.