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Royal Dental HospitalOn Saturday, Oct. 11, at 3 P.M., Sir Ernest Graham-Little,

M.D., M.P., will present the prizes to the students of the school.

King’s College HospitalAt the opening of the new session of the medical school

on Friday, Oct. 3, at 3 P.M., Sir Edward Mellanby, F.R.S., willdeliver the introductory address.

Royal Sanitary InstituteAt a meeting of the institute to be held at the civic centre,

Southampton, on Saturday, Sept. 27, at 10 A.M., Dr. R. M.Warren will speak on Venereal Diseases—Past, Present, andFuture.

Institute of Laryngology and OtologyOn Friday, Oct. 10, at 4.30 P.M., Sir Francis Fraser will

deliver the annual address at the institute, 330, Gray’s InnRoad, London, W.C.I. He is to speak on the Training ofSpecialists-the Place of Postgraduate Institutes.

Beds for Poliomyelitis at WalkefieldAt the beginning of August the Pinderfields Emergency

Hospital, Wakefield, opened a unit for cases of acute anteriorpoliomyelitis, and at present 55 patients are receivingtreatment.

London HospitalThe Liddle prize will next be awarded for an essay on

Anuria in Pregnancy, and the- Hutchinson prize for a disser-tation on Peripheral Vascular Disorders. Particulars maybe had from the secretary of the medical college, TurnerStreet, E.I.

Regional Boards’ AppointmentThe Liverpool Regional Hospital Board have appointed

Dr. T. Lloyd Hughes (M.o.H., Middlesbrough) as their senioradministrative medical officer, and the Newcastle-on-Tyneboard have appointed Dr. W. G. Patterson (M.O.H., Surrey)as theirs.

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Hospital Day .

The London voluntary hospitals have chosen Oct. 7 as theirhalf-yearly hospital day, and anyone who can spare time tohelp should get in touch with the secretary of the LondonHospitals Street Collections Central Committee, 12, Whitehall,S.W.I.

Institute of PsychiatryCourses of lectures and demonstrations for postgraduate

students in psychiatry will be held at the institute, duringthe coming session, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays,and Fridays between 2 P.M. and 5.30 P.M. Further informationmay be had from the subdean of the institute, MaudsleyHospital, Denmark Hill, London, S.E.5.

Socialist Medical Association

Today, Friday, Sept. 12, Dr. Judith Waterlow will give thefirst of three lectures on Medicine in Other Countries. Shewill speak on Reconstruction of the Health Services in Greeceand Yugoslavia. On Thursday, Oct. 9, Dr. Marc Daniels willspeak on Health Services in Post-war Poland"and on Oct. 31Dr. J. E. McCartney will give Some Impressions of AmericanLaboratories. All the lectures will be held at 7.30 P.M. atDenison House, 296, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, S.VV.1.

Society of Chemical IndustryAt a joint meeting of the microbiological and nutrition

panels of the food group to be held on Wednesday, Oct. 8,at 6 P.M., in the rooms of the Chemical Society, BurlingtonHouse, Piccadilly, London, W.l, a series of papers will beread on Microbiological Proteins. Prof. B. S. Platt will discusstheir Use for Human Food.

Osler Club of London _

This club, which was founded in 1928 to encourage medicalstudents to link the history of their art with their professionalwork, and to keep green the memory of Sir William Osler,is to be revived. Pre-war members will form the nucleus,and they wish to add to their numbers interested medicalstudents or recently qualified men and women. Furtherdetails may be had from the acting secretary, Dr. A. WhiteFranklin, 11, Wimpole Street, W.I.

Control of the Tsetse FlyA meeting will be held at 2.30 P.M. on Wednesday, Sept. 24,

at the London School of Hygiene, Keppel Street, W.C.1, todiscuss D.D.T. and the Aeroplane in the Control of the TsetseFly and Trypanosomiasis in South Africa. Dr. P. J. du Toit,director of veterinary services in the Union of South Africa,will introduce a colour-sound film prepared by the staff of theOnderstepoort Laboratory, Pretoria.

National Corporation for the Care of Old PeopleAt the first meeting of the governors of the corporation

it was decided to appoint an advisory council to make recom-mendations on the policy and activities of the corporationand to examine all applications for grant-aid. The Hon.Geoffrey Gibbs, vice-chairman of the corporation, will bethe chairman, and Mr. L. Farrer-Brown the vice-chairman, ofthis council, and the members are : Mr. H. Fieldhouse,Mr. D. H. W. Hall, Mr. A. W. Hersee, Alderman Mrs. A. V.Hill, Mr. Howell James, Sir Geoffrey King, Mr. Fred Messer,M.P., Sir Ernest Rock Carling, F.R.c.s., and Miss E. L.Younghusband. Mr. Allendale Sanderson was appointedsecretary of the corporation, which may be addressed at9, Mecklenburgh Square, London, W.C.I.

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An Institute of Animal PhysiologyThe Agricultural Research Council have decided to establish

a new Institute of Animal Physiology and have appointedProf. I. de Burgh Daly, F.R.S., as its director. He will, itis hoped, take office early in 1948, and it is the council’sintention to appoint as his senior colleagues two scientificworkers of high distinction in biochemistry and pathology,so that the full range of problems bearing on the physiologyof farm animals may be studied, including practical problemsarising in the course of the handling and care of animalson the farm.. A site for the institute has not yet been chosen,but preference will be given to one sufficiently near to auniversity to facilitate close contact between scientists workingin the institute and those in the university departments.

Professor Daly, who has held the chair of physiology in the Univer-sity of Edinburgh since 1933, is 54 years of age. He was educated atRossall School, at Cambridge University, where he’took first-classhonours in part i of the natural sciences tripos, and at St. Bartholo-mew’s Hospital. In the war of 1914-18 he served as a private inthe R.A.M.C. and later as a fighter-pilot in the R.N.A.S., serving atDunkirk and in the Ypres salient. In 1918 he took his M.B. and thefollowing year he joined the staff of the department of physiologyof University College, London, while holding a Beit fellowship.In 1923 he was appointed lecturer in experimental physiology inthe University of Wales, at Cardift, and four years later hebecame professor of physiology in the University of Birmingham.During the war of 1939-45 Professor Daly carried out researchon the physiology of high-altitude flying and on poison gases inEdinburgh till 1943, when he was appointed director of the physio-logical laboratory of the Medical Research Council at Lulworth,which was responsible for the investigation of the physiologicalfactors determining the fighting efficiency of the crews in armouredftghting vehicles. A co-editor of the Quarterly Journal of Experi-mental Physiology Professor Daly’s own papers have mainly dealtwith the physiology of the cardiovascular system and pulmonarycirculation. He was elected F.R.S. in 1943.

Return to PracticeThe Central Medical War Committee announces that

Dr. R. B. Niven has resumed civilian practice at 58a, WimpoleStreet, London, W.1 (Welbeck 8615).

CORRIGENDUM.—The appointment which Prof. WilliamBurns held in the Royal Naval Scientific Service in 1946 wasthat of a principal scientific officer (and not principal scientificofficer as stated in our news paragraph last week).

Diary of the WeekSEPT. 14 To 20

Monday, 15thINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SURGERY

11 A.M. (Lincoln’s Inn, W.C.2.) Inaugural ceremony of inter-national congress.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C.23.45 P.M. Prof. F. G. Young, D.SC. : Endocrines and Carbo-

hydrate Metabolism. (Second lecture.)5 P.M. Prof. J. H. Biggart: Pathology of Virilism.

Tuesday,16thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

3.45 P.M. Dr. R. G. Macfarlane : Blood Coagulation.5 P.M. Professor Biggart : Pathogenesis of Vascular Disease.

INSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY, 330 Gray’s Inn Road,W.C.I

4.30 P.M. Mr. E. D. D. Davis : Injuries of the Ear.