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Royal SocietyThose elected fellows of this society include:Dr. E. S. Anderson, director of the central enteric reference

laboratory and bureau, Public Health Laboratory Service, London;Dr. D. E. Broadbent, director of the M.R.C.’s Applied PsychologyResearch Unit, Cambridge; Dr. B. D. Burns, director of the divisionof pharmacology and physiology at the M.R.C.’s National Institutefor Medical Research, London; Prof. Henry Harris, professor ofpathology at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in theUniversity of Oxford; Prof. P. L. Mollison, professor of haematologyat the Wright-Fleming Institute in the University of London;Prof. M. G. P. Stoker, professor of virology at the Institute ofVirology in the University of Glasgow; Prof. M. F. A. Woodruff,professor of surgical science and director of the Nuffield Trans-plantation Surgery Unit in the University of Edinburgh.

Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and HygieneThe Manson medal for 1968 has been awarded to Sir John

Boyd, F.R.S.Dr. E. D. Acheson has been elected to a supernumerary fellowship

of Brasenose College, Oxford, becoming a member of the governingbody.

The Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation Trust is to finance aresearch project to be conducted by Dr. Winifred Young, costingE20.000 over a period of 3 years.The Camberwell Council on Alcoholism and the International

Council on Alcohol and Alcoholism will hold an international

symposium (fee 63s.) at the Institute of Psychiatry from May 15to 17. The theme is to be the drunkenness offence. Details may behad from Mr. T. Cook, 2 Ferndale Road, London S.W.4.

CORRIGENDA: Pneumococcal Pneumonia.-We apologise to Prof.Robert Austrian, of Philadelphia, for getting his name wrong in ournote of March 2 (p. 484). We said he had found that the frequencyof pneumococcal pneumonia and the serotypes of organism responsiblewere the same as they were before the introduction of antibacterialdrugs. We failed to add that type n was an exception to this. 1 in

every 5 patients admitted to hospital with bactercemic disease andtreated with these drugs died. The mortality in treated bacterxmictype-in pneumococcal infections was 50%. Those most at risk wereolder patients and persons with chronic illness. Dr. Austrian sug-gested that vaccination with a polyvalent vaccine of 6 pneumococcalcapsular polysaccharides might reduce morbidity and mortalityby 60%.

Xg Blood-groups in Muscular Dystrophy.-In this letter by Dr.Filippi and Dr. Macciotta (Sept. 9, p. 565), the 3rd child in pedigreeno. 1 was not grouped for Xg and should not have been listed as a-.

Diary of the Week

MARCH 31 TO APRIL 6Tuesday, 2ndROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL, Ducane Road, London W. 124 P.M. Mr. A. G. Cox: Surgery of Peptic Ulcer.

Wednesday, 3rdINSTITUTE OF ORTHOP1E,DICS, 234 Great Portland Street, London W. 1

8.15 P.M. Mr. C. W. Manning: Leg Equalisation.INSTITUTE OF UROLOGY, 10 Henrietta Street, London W.C.2

5 P.M. Dr. K. M. Cameron: Unusual Neoplasms.ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn Road, London W.C.1

5.15 P.M. Dr. Christopher Pallis: Neurological Spot Diagnosis.MIDLAND MEDICAL SOCIETY

8.30 P.M. (Birmingham Medical Institute, 36 Harborne Road, Edgbaston.)Dr. P. H. Addison: Legal Aspects of Sterilisation and Contraception.

MEDICINE TODAY11 P.M. (B.B.C.-1.) Psoriasis. (Repeat.)

Thursday, 4thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London

W.C.25 P.M. Prof. W. G. Bigelow: Surgical Management of Coronary Heart-

disease. (Moynihan lecture.)ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL

4 P.M. Dr. D. G. Melrose: Hypothermia.MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY

5 P.M. (Medical School.) Pcediatrics. Dr. Winston Turner: PaediatricSociology in Burnley. (Presidential address.)

Friday, 5thROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL

10.15 A.M. Mr. Norman Struthers: Dynamics of the Ureter.

Pamphlets and Reports

Partnership in Medical Care. The ninth Maurice BlochLecture was delivered by the Minister of Health, Mr. KennethRobinson, on Dec. 6, 1967, at the University of Glasgow. (Obtainablefrom Jackson & Co. Ltd., 73 West George Street, Glasgow C.2.7s. 6d.)

Catecholamines in Cardiovascular Physiology and Disease.American Heart Association Monograph no. 17 contains the pro-ceedings of a conference held in January, 1967, in Canberra,Australia, and is supplement ill to vols. xx and xxi of the Association’sofficial journal Circulation Research. (Obtainable from the AmericanHeart Association, Inc., 44 East 23rd Street, New York, N.Y.10010.$3.)

Registrar General’s Statistical Review of England and Walesfor the Year 1965: part III, commentary. (H.M. StationeryOffice. 33s. 6d.)

Third Nuffield Conference on Rheumatism. The proceedingsof this conference, which was held at Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire, inApril, 1967, are obtainable, free of charge, from the Nuffield Founda-tion, Nuffield Lodge, Regent’s Park, London N.W.1.

Medical and Applied Virology. The proceedings of the SecondInternational Symposium held at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in Decem-ber, 1966, have as their theme Interference, Interferon, and the ViralInhibitors. (St. Louis: Warren H. Green.$18.)

Current Estimates from the Health Interview Survey.Provisional figures for acute and chronic illnesses, hospital dis-

charges, disability-days, injuries, and visits by a physician based oninterviews during 1966-67. (Obtainable from the superintendentof documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.20402.$0.40.)

A Glossary of Mental Disorders. A committee under the

chairmanship of Sir Aubrey Lewis has prepared this glossary as acompanion to the eighth revision of the International Classificationof Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death which came into force onJan. 1. (H.M. Stationery Office. 6s.)

Gastrointestinal Radiation Injury. The first volume of aseries of Monographs on Nuclear Medicine and Biology is based on aninternational symposium held at Richland, Washington, in September,1966. (Amsterdam: Excerpta Medica. D. fl. 118.80;$33; S1316.)

Poisons and T.S.A. Guide. Poisons, dangerous drugs, and thera-peutic substances are covered by nine Acts of Parliament and twenty-seven statutory instruments. The ninth edition of this guide explainsthe restrictions and gives a list of 6500 products and the particularrestrictions applying to them. (Obtainable from the PharmaceuticalPress, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London W.C.I. 10s., post-free.)

Liver Research. Transactions of the 3rd International Sym-posium of the International Association for the Study of the Liver,held in Tokyo and Kyoto in September, 1966. Previously publishedas a supplement to Tijdschrift voor Gastroenterologie. (Obtainablefrom the Editorial Office [Dr. L. 0. Standaert), Tijdschrift voorGastroenterologie, Lange Lozanastraat 222, Antwerp 1, Belgium.B.fr. 550;$11.)

Interdisciplinary Topics in Gerontology: vol. I. The firstvolume in this series, Psychological Functioning in the NormalAging and Senile Aged, is the report of an international symposiumheld at Semmering (Austria) in June, 1966. (Basle and New York:S. Karger. London: Academic Press. Sw. fr./DM 33;$7.90; 66s.)

Organizational Biosynthesis. The proceedings of a symposiumheld at the Institute of Microbiology of Rutgers, New Brunswick, inSeptember, 1966. (New York and London: Academic Press.$19;S8 17.)

Scottish Health Statistics 1966. (H.M. Stationery Office,Edinburgh. 45s.)

Reconstructive Surgery of Thermal Injuries. The SecondNational Conference of the Swiss Society of Plastic and Reconstruc-tive Surgeons was held in Zurich in November, 1966. (Amsterdam:Excerpta Medica. D. fl. 36;$10; E4 4.)