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Royal College of Physicians of LondonThe College will be closed for cleaning from Monday,

August lst, till Saturday, Sept. 9th, both days inclusive.

Opera for Hospitals ,

In June a grand opera week was held in Birmingham onbehalf of the city hospitals. The result was a net profit of£9882, of which about one-tenth was derived from theperformances, the bulk of the money being given as

donations.

New Hospital at CromerThe Dowager Lady Suffield last week opened the new

Cromer and District Hospital, which has been built at a costof B20,000 to replace the old cottage hospital. The buildingis only £200 in debt. There are men’s and women’s wardseach containing 12 beds, two single-bed wards, and achildren’s ward for six or more beds.

Memorial to a Medical ManTwo beds have been endowed at the Cardiff Royal Infir-

mary in memory of the late Dr’ Thomas Wade Richards andhis wife, under the will of the late Miss Sarah Lewis,Mrs. Richards’s sister.

Metropolitan Hospital Sunday FundIt is officially stated that the collections for this fund on

June 26th amounted to about oE57,000, including £4000from Sir Heath Harrison and £800 from " X. Y. D." Thelargest church collection, £470, was at St. Columbia’s, Pont-street.

Congress of Plastic SurgeryThe third congress of the Societe Scientifique Fran,aise

de Chirurgie Reparatrice, Plastique et Esthétique, will beheld in Paris on Oct. 7th and 8th, under the presidency ofDr. Dartigues, from whom particulars may be had at81, Rue de la Pompe, Paris, XVI.

Congress on the Care of ChildrenThe seventh Congrès International de Protection de

l’Enfance will be held in Paris from July 5th-9th next year.The main subjects of discussion will be the Medical Super-vision of Sports and the relation between Charity and theState. The five sections of the congress will be devoted tomaternity, early childhood, late childhood, abnormalchildhood, and social service. Particulars may be hadfrom the secretariat at 26, Boulevard de Vaugirard,Paris, XV.

Post-graduate Courses in BerlinFrom Oct. 10th onwards a number of international post-

graduate courses will be held in Berlin on general andspecial subjects. The latter include tuberculosis (Oct. 10th-15th), urology (Sept. 26th-Oct. 1st), medical psychologyand psychotherapy (Oct. 17th-22nd), and intrathoracicsurgery (Oct. 17th-21st). In the spring there will befurther courses on internal medicine, ophthalmology,surgery, X rays, skin and venereal diseases, and paediatrics.Particulars may be had from the information bureau ofthe Kaiserin Friedrich-Haus, Robert Koch-platz 2,Berlin, N.W.7.

Research Fellowships in TuberculosisThe Medical Research Council announce that they have

awarded Dorothy Temple Cross Fellowships for 1932-33 to :Veronica Bessie Frith Dawkins, M.B., resident medicalofficer, Maltings Farm Sanatorium, Colchester; GordonAlonerieff Dean, M.B., late of the department of surgery,Aberdeen University ; Evelyn Mary Holmes, M.B., lateassistant tuberculosis officer, Welsh National MemorialAssociation ; John Nöel O’Reilly, B.M., late house physician,Brompton Hospital, London; Walter Graham Scott-Brown, F.R.C.S., assistant surgeon, throat, nose and eardepartment, Royal Free Hospital, London. Dr. Deanwill study problems of tuberculosis at Baltimore ; the othersat different European centres.

Fellowship of Medicine and Post-Graduate MedicalAssociationDr. G. F. Stebbing will give a demonstration of selected

cases of general interest at the Lambeth Hospital, Brook-street, S.E., at 2.0 P.M., on Friday, August 5th. Applica-tion for attendance at this demonstration should be madeto the Fellowship by August 3rd. During August theonly special course will be in urology, at the All SaintsHospital, Austral-street, West-square (the new hospitalbuildings). It occupies afternoons and evenings, andconsists of clinical demonstrations. Individual clinics atvarious London general and special hospitals may be attendedby special arrangement with the Fellowship. The secretary’saddress is 1, Wimpole-street, London, W.1.

Kent and Sussex HospitalThe Ducliess of York last week laid the foundation-stone

of the new Kent and Sussex Hospital at Tunbridge Wells,which will combine the existing Tunbridge Wells GeneralHospital and the Eye and Ear Hospital.

Hospital ScholarshipsThe following scholarships have lately been awarded :-Guy’s Hospital Medical School.-University scholarship :

D. F. G. Moir (Oxford). Exhibition: P. W. Clarkson(Edinburgh).London Hospital Medical College.-Freedom scholarship

in pathology : Mr. J. R. G. Harris (Cambridge).Royal Free Hospital.—A. M. Bird post-graduate scholar-

ship in pathology: Miss R. 0. J. Clark, M.B. MabelWebb and A. M. Bird research scholarship : Miss U. Shelley,M.B. Special A. M. Bird research scholarship: MissMargaret Salmond, M.D.

St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College.-Universityscholarship : J. W. A. Turner (Oxford). Exhibition:G. Blackburn (Cambridge) and A. R. Kelsall (Cambridge),equal.

St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School.-University scholar-ship : H. T. Laycock (Cambridge). Exhibition: J. R.Rose (Cambridge).

University College, London.-Bayliss-Starling memorialscholarship : C. H. Gray.

University College Hospital Medical School.-Goldsmidentrance scholarships : W. C. Chapman (Oxford) and W. A.Pritchard (University College). Goldsmid entrance exhibi-tion : L. N. G. Lytton (Cambridge). Filliter entrancescholarship in pathology: C. G. Roworth (UniversityCollege).

Medical DiaryInformation to De included in this column should reach us

in proper form on Tuesday, and cannot appear if it reaches uslater than the first post on Wednesday morning.

LECTURES, ADDRESSES, DEMONSTRATIONS. &c.FELLOWSHIP OF MEDICINE AND POST-GRADUATEMEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 1, Wimpole-street, W.MONDAY, August 1st, to SATURDAY, August 6th.—LAMBETH

HOSPITAL, Brook-street, S.E. A demonstration ofSelected Cases of General Interest on Frid., at 2 P.M.,by Dr. G. F. Stebbing, assisted by the Staff of theHospital.

Births, Marriages, and DeathsBIRTHS

GILLAM.—On July 12th, the wife of J. F. E. Gillam, F.R.C.S.’ Haverfordwest, of a son.SABONADIERE.-On July 19th, at St. Benet’s, Alexandra-

avenue, Great Yarmouth, the wife of Dr. Richard,Sabonadiere, of a son.

STIELL.—On July 21st, at Welbeck-street, W., the wife ofDr. Gavin Stiell, of a son.

TRAFFORD.—On July 20th, at Grafton House, Warlingham,the wife of Dr. Harold Trafford, of a son.

MARRIAGES. -

BENTON—BOON.—On July 19th, at West Bridgeford, Notts,by the Rev. J. 0. Dobson, Sidney Bevan Benton, M.R.C.S.,L.R.C.P., younger son of Dr. and Mrs. William Benton,of Forest Gate, London, to Ethel Mary, eldest daughterof Mr. and Mrs. George B. Boon.

DEATHSCARROL-OTWAY.-On July 18th, suddenly, Alfred Carrol-

Otway, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., of Castelnau, Barnes, S.W.,aged 74.

COLDSTREAM.—On July 22nd, killed while on duty in the CivilHospital, Peshawar, Captain William John Anson Cold-stream, I.M.S., F.R.C.S.E.

CREwE.-On July 21st, at Smeeth, Kent, Clifford Crewe, M.D.late of Shelley House, Essex, and Guernsey.

HARRIS.—On July 18th, at Trevalsa, Wadebridge, Cornwall,William Harris, M.D., F.R.C.S.

HOLMES.—On July 24th, at Llanishen, Cardiff, J. V. Holmes,M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O., D.P.H.

NAIRN.—At his residence, " Makirikiri " Hastings, New Zealand,on April 8th, 1932, Robert Nairn, F.R.C.S. Eng., aged 70years.

STEELE.—On July 23rd, John Leslie Fisher Steele, b2.B.,B.Ch., T.C.D., of Montagu Mansions and Upper Wimpole-street, W.

WILSON.—On July 19th, at Blossom-street, York, WilliamBrockie Wilson, M.B., Ch.B., late of Singapore, aged 42years.

N.B.—A fee of 7s. 6d. is charped for the insertion of Notices ofBirths, Marriages, and Deaths.