769 emphatically so the thing you have never seen or heard of before. The thing you cannot get a pigeon- hole for is the finger point showing the way to Medical News. discovery." His own scientific hypotheses had a knack of turning out right-for example, his forecast of the life-history of Schistosoma hcematobium in the UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE : DIPLOMA IN PSYCHO- edition of his manual of Diseases in LOGICAL MEDICINE.-A short course of instruction for the fourth Tropical D.P.M. also his in 1903 of the two of examination will be held in Cambridge from July 12th 1907, suggestion species to August 17th. The course will include lectures and true in 1915. prac- schistosoma proved by Leiper Younger tical work on psychology, the anatomy and physiology of men who came under Manson’s influence remarked the nervous system, morbid psychology, mental diseases, always that in outlook and in knowledge he remained dreams, mental deficiency, &c. The fee for the full course is eager and enthusiastic to the end. His interest in his twelve guineas. Further particulars may be obtained from the work never flagged. Only 14 days before his death Secretary, D.P.M. Committee, Psychological Laboratory, he visited the London School of Tropical Medicine Cambridge. and critically examined some microscopical prepara- UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN, SCHOOL OF PIIYSIC, tions, showing his usual perspicacity in picking out the TRINITY COLLEGE.-At examinations held recently the important points in each specimen and emphasising following candidates were successful :- the lessons they taught. Almost the last words he FINAL MEDICAL EXAMINATION. uttered expressed his hopes for the future of this Part I., Materia J[edica and Therapeutics; Medical .7,tiris- school for which he anticipated a still wider field of prudence and Hygiene; Bacteriology and Pathology.- work in with the Rockefeller scheme for *Bernard Morris, *Agnes MoLaughlin, *Henry W. L. Dale, cooperation Harold Renton, Heginald R. J. Brandt, James A. MacDonald, the new Institute of Hygiene. Ernest M. Landau, William E. Hutchinson, James E. He married in 1876 Henrietta of Deale, Cecil A. V. Ovendale, Arthur Darlington, Frederick Isabella, daughter G. Brown, Martha Reid, Samuel M. Geffen, John S. Glasgow, Captain J. P. Thurburn, by whom he had two sons Israel Marin, Margaret L. Cowan, Albert V. Foster, Albert and three daughters, one of whom is the wife of E. O’Donnell, Harold Lewin, Charles T. MacCarthy, Maria Dr. the editor of the last edition of E. Wagener, Richard C. L. Gritliths, Etienne R. Hafner, Manson-Bahr, Hugh R. Brady, Charles Gordon, Hans J. Hugo, Philipp Sir Patrick Manson’s famous, Treatise on Tropical F. H. Wagner, Kathleen E. Hill, Herbert Kohlberg, Hyman Diseases. S- Roseman, Richard R. D. Crawford, Isabella H. Speedy, ____ Albert V. Wood, Gerard A. A. Powell, and Jack A. Levett. Materia Medica and Therapetitics ; Medical Jurisprudence and DARBY BOYD, C.B., C.M.G., Hygiene.-Albertus W. Fksteen, Mossy Jaffe, Nicolans Jan FRANCIS Valkenburg Van Druten, Louis Harris, and Samuel W. M.D. EDIN., F.R.C.P. EDIN., Jamison. PROFESSOR OF CLINICAL MEDICINE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF Medical Jurisprudence and Hygiene;; Bacteriology and EDINBURGH. Pathology.—Isobel G. Smith. Materia -ifedica and Therapeutics ; Bacteriology and Pathology. Prof. Boyd, who died on 4th in —Eileen Brangan. April Edinburgh, and T. James J. was in his Son of Mr. John the Bacteriology Pathology.—William Rogan, fifty-sixth year. Boyd, FitzGerald, William L. Duncan, and David J. Malan. publisher, and educated first at Edinburgh Academy, Port II., Medicine.—*Izak George Sacks, *Charles E. Brunton, he afterwards entered the Maurice Bewley, Daniel Hugo, Olive V. Fair, George University, graduating William B. E. Ruth C.M. in 1888. Five later he won the Blackall, McCrea, Lemon, Leopold M.B., years gold Stazunsky, Joseph Harte, Francis M. Hilliard, Ivan Marais, medal at the M.D. degree, having in the meantime May E. Powell, Mauritius M. Viljoen, Thomas G. Warham, continued his studies at Prague and Berlin. In 1891 Richard Lang, Rita Dillon-Leetch, Leon 0. Vercueil, Charles E. William B. John E. he was elected a Member of the of Ovendale, Briggs, McCormick, Royal College Eric R. Murray, Cecil de Lisle Shortt, William S. Dickson, Physicians of Edinburgh and in the following year to Lionel Wigoder, Jacob Hofman, Allen E. Drotske, Julius a Fellowship. During the South African War he served Kruger, Seymour G. Rainsford, John B. Horan, Charles W. Donald H. Izidore P. David L. H. as to the and for his Parr, Saayman, Myers, physician Edinburgh Hospital Moore, Izak F. A. de Villiers, Victor Robinson, Hendrik N. services was mentioned in despatches and received the Krige, and Harry C. Dundon. C.1Z.G. in 1901. In the late war he served with distinc- , Surgery.—Samuel G. Weldon, IIendrik N. Krige, Isaac J. U. Petrus H. S. tion as consultant to the British in was ’, Cornick, Cyril Murphy, Fouche, Margery Army Egypt, Bouchier-Hayes, David L. H. Moore, William S. Dickson, again mentioned in despatches, and was awarded the I Francis Malone-Barrett, James Devane, Francis B. D’Arcy, C.B. From the Territorial Force, in which he was a ’I Robert Dormer, Cecil W. R. McCaldin, George S. Moran, he retired with the rank of Henry J. L. Murphy, Vera G. M. Meuarv, Izak F. A. de major, owing to age limit, Villiers, John G. Russell, Albert E. Phillips, William P. colonel, only a few days ago. Burns, Alfred J. Beckett, and Gilbert Kirker. ’Mauritius Meiring Prof. who was to the chair of clinical Midwifery.—*Geoffrey Bewley, Viljoen, Boyd, appointed Matthijs P. l,011w, Robert. N. Perrott, Alexander Bernstein, medicine in the University of Edinburgh as recently Florine Isabel Irwin, Joseph C. Gillespie, William II. Smith, as 1919, was consulting physician to the Deaconess David J. Malan, Mary II. Harcourt, Ivan Marais, Isaac and had been to the Cornick, William E. Callanan, James Devpne, John B. Hospital, Edinburgh, physician Horan, Douwe Marinus Vellerna,, Joseph E. Deane, William Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, and lecturer on materia E. Holmes, Michael Gallivan, Henry J. L. Murphy, Ninian medica and therapeutics at the school of medicine of McIntire Falkiner, Maurice Schwartzberg, Herbert Hall, the He married in 1904 Francis B. D’Arcy, Joseph Harte, Alfred J. Beckett, Royal Colleges: Constance, Joseph M. O’Connor, Samuel W. Russell, and David S. eldest daughter of Mr. Alfred J. A. Lepper, by whom Spence. he had two daughters. DIPLOMA IN PUBLIC HEALTH. Part I., Chemistry, Bacteriology, Physics, and Meteorology.— James A. Acheson, John C. P. Beatty, Hector C. C. Deane, Alice B. S. Smith, Margaretta T. Stevenson, Edith F. UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER.-The total Sum Willock, Nannette Norris, and Richard V. Dowse. obtained by the bazaar held last November in aid of the Part //., Sanitary Engineering, Practical Sanitary Report, funds of the University amounted to iJ15,94.0. Hygiene and Epidemiology, Vital Statistics and Public 77(.Y’KA Law.—John C. P. Beattv, Hector C. C. Deane, TOURS IN THE HAUTES PYRNH’ES.-T110 Touring William L. Young, Nannette Norris, Edward D’Arcy McCrea, Richard W. Power, Edith F. Willock, and James A. Club de France, in collaboration with the Camping Club of Acheson. Great Britain and Ireland, the Belgian Touring Club and MASTER IX SURGERY (M.CH.). the Tourist Camping Club of the Netherlands, have organised Edward D’Arcy. McCrea. a 19 * days’ camping excursion in the Pyrenees-namely, from Passed on high marks. Sept. 2nd to 23rd next. Starting from Paris-Orsay on Sept. 2nd, at 5.15 P.M., and arriving at 8 A.M. the UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN : RESIGNATION OF PROF. following day at Cauterets, in the Department of Hautes C. NIVEN.—Prof. Charles Niven has resigned the Chair of Pyrenees, the party will be organised and provision will be Natural Philosophy at the University. He graduated at made for the tour which will end at Arreau via Tarbes, King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1863, and was Simpson Mathe- Lourdes, Pau, and Bordeaux to Paris by boat, or direct from matical prizeman. In the following year he won the Ferguson Tarbes to Paris by train. Various optional excursions and Scholarship. and in 1867 was Senior Wrangler at Cambridge. opportunities for sport are included in the itinerary. Further On leaving Cambridge he was appointed Professor of -ATathe- information can be obtained from the Office Français du matics in Queen’s College, Cork, in 1880 Professor of Natural Tourisme, 56, Haymarket, London, S.W., or from Dr. Philosophy at Aberdeen University, and in the same year was Meilton, President du Syndicat d’lnitiative, Cauterets, made a Fellow of the Royal Society. The more important Hautes Pyrenees, France. of his numerous publications were his articles on the elasticity 770 of solid bodies, conduction of heat, and conduction of electric courses in children’s diseases, tropical medicine, &c., are in currents. Prof. Niven received the hon. degree of D.Sc. from course of preparation. Queen’s University, Dublin, and on more than one occasion The series of free lectures at the Royal Society of Medicine, was appointed examiner for the Ferguson scholarship. He 1, Wimpole-street, announced last week, willbegin on May 1st. was one of a family of remarkable mathematical scholars. The opening lecture will be delivered at 5P.M. by Sir Humphry His elder brother, also a Simpson prizeman, became a Fellow Rolleston, on " Recent Physiology of the Liver and it of Trinity College, Cambridge, and an F.R.S., and later Application in Practice." Other lectures in May will be became Director of Studies at the Royal Naval College. as follows : May 9th, Sir Arbuthnot Lane on Fractures; " Greenwich. A younger brother was eighth Wrangler at May 16th, Sir Thomas Horder on The Clinical 8igni6canc& Cambridge, while the youngest brother was fifteenth of Haemoptysis " ; and May 24th, Sir StClair Thomson on Wrangler. Both the latter became qualified in medicine. "The Surgical Anatomy of the Nose and Accessory Sinuses" ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON.-An (lantern demonstration). The complete list of lectures to the end of will be forwarded on to the Comitia of the was held on July application extraordinary College Monday, to the of Medicine. April 10th, Sir Norman Moore, the President, occupying the Secretary Fellowship chair. The President commenced his annual address by THE Rockefeller Foundation has offered five scholar. announcing that after four years of office he did not desire ships, each of$1000, to Indian medical graduates, selected to serve for a further year. He then gave a summary of the by the Scientific Board of the Indian Research Fund, for chief events in connexion with the College during the past the purpose of post-graduate public health work in America. year and accounts of the ten Fellows of the College who had died during the yea,r-viz., Dr. G. D. Longstaff, Sir George Lord Yarborough formally presented to Lincoln Savage, Dr. Albert S. F. Leyton, Dr. F. A. Bainbridge, County Hospital on April 7th the new X ray department Dr. John Wickham Legg, Dr. John Harley, Dr. John Elliott, and pathological laboratory which has been erected and Dr. George Charles Bright (son of the celebrated Dr. Richard equipped by the Lincolnshire Yeomanry as a war memorial. Bright), Dr. Ainslie Hollis, and Sir Patrick Manson. Sir ROYAL NAVY MEDICAL CLUB.—The annual dinner William Church proposed a vote of thanks to the President for his address and for his services to the College. Sir Norman will take place at the Trocadero Restaurant on Thursday, Moore then vacated the chair, and the College proceeded to Aprtl 27th, at 7.30, for 8 P.M. Members who wish to be are asked to inform the Hon. the election of a President. In the first ballot Sir Humphry present Sec., Royal Navy Rolleston received 34 votes and Sir John Rose Bradford Medical Club, 68, Victoria-street, London, S.W. 1, not later than April 20th. 17, 81 Fellows voting. In accordance with the by-laws of , the College a further’ballot took place, when Sir Humphry HARVEIAN SOCIETY.-A meeting of this Society will Rolleston received 58 votes, Sir John Rose Bradford-23. Sir be held at the Town Hall, Harrow-road, Paddington, London, Rolleston was installed as President the senior Humphry by W. 2, on 27th, at 8.30 P.M., when a discussion will take Fellow Sir W. S. and he then his faith April present; Church, gave place on Influenza. The speakers will be: Dr. Sidney Phillips, to the College. Various communications were received, and Sir Humphry Rolleston, Sir Thomas Horder, Dr. R. A. Sir Humphry Rolleston was appointed the representative Young, Dr. Thoresby Jones, Dr. Beaumont, and Dr. of the College at the celebrations in honour of the foundation Freeman. of the University of Padua. After a proposal by Dr. Sidney Phillips in regard to the Finance Committee of the College, FRENCH CONGRESS OF MEDICINE, 1922.—The the President declared the Comitia closed. sixteenth French Congress of Medicine will be held in ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.-The Paris on Oct. 12th, 13th, and 14th. The officers of the are as follows : Dr. Fernand Council was held on 6th, with Sir congress President, quarterly April Anthony Widal; Drs. G. and Louis Martin ; Bowlby in the chair. A report was read from the secretary vice-presidents, Thibierge candidates found for the general secretary, Dr. A. Lemierre ; assistant secretary, respecting qualified Membership, Dr. M. Dr. E. Joltrain. The of and of were to three candidates Brule ; treasurer, subjects Diplomas Membership granted discussion will be : Differential between Gastric named in the best thanks of the Council were Diagnosis report.-The and Duodenal Ulcer E. G. A. to Mr. Alban Doran for his valuable services in con- (Drs. Enriquez, Durand, Cramer, given Ch. the of Abnormalities tinuing to arrange and catalogue the collection of surgical Saloz) ; Pathological Significance instruments in the and to the Government of of the White Blood Cells (Drs. Sabrazès, Lemaire) ; Preven- museum, tive and Curative Treatment of the Diseases Trinidad for to the some skeletons Deficiency (Drs. presenting College G. F. The is excavated at Palo Seco in Trinidad.-A report was received Weill, Mouriquand, Rathery). congress open from the Committee the the to members of the "Association des Medecins de langue Library regarding completion by to the of thecommittee-to librarian of the Lives of the Fellows, and a vote of thanks was française," and—subject approval given to the librarian, Mr. Victor G. Plarr, for his interesting such medical men and others interested in medical questions and valuable work.-The Jacksonian Prize for 1921, for who desire to attend. The fee for members of the congress is Fr.’lO ; medical students and members of the families of essays on the Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Tuberculous Disease of the Spinal Column with its Com- members will be admitted as associate members on payment of a fee of Fr.20. Those information should write- was not and the for the desiring plications, awarded, subject adopted to the Bureau de l’Association la des year 1923 was the Pathology and Treatment of Malignant pour Developpement Diseases of the Testicle.-The following members of 20 Relations Medicales avec l’Etranger, at the address of the Bureau du Rue de l’Ecole de Medecine; or to years’ standing were elected to the Fellowship : Charles Congrès, 12, Brook dated 19th, 1861, and Dr. A. Lemierre, 217, Rue du Faubourg St. Honors (Lincoln), diploma April Paris 8e. William Coates, C.B., C.B.E. (Manchester), diploma dated ______July 25th, 1881.-The President was requested to convey the congratulations of the Council to Dr. C. H. Brooking, 3-LR.C.S. 1843, of Paignton, who recently attained the age of 100 years. Medical Diary. The following demonstrations, open to advanced students and medical practitioners, of specimens from the museum will SOCIETIES. be given in the Theatre of the in Lincoln’s Inn College ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole-street, W. Fields at 5 P.M. on the following dates : April 21st, 28th, and May 5th, Prof. Sir Arthur Keith on Specimens of MEETINGS OF SECTIONS. Hernia, Femoral and Obturator Forms, the Causation of Wednesday, April 19th. Hernia ; specimens illustrating the forms of Inguinal HISTORY OF MEDICINE : at 5 P.M. Hernia ; Umbilical and Diaphragmatic Hernia. April 24th, Paper: May 1st and 8th, Prof. Shattock on Specimens illus- Mr. Victor G. Plarr (Librarian, Royal College of Surgeons) : trating Repair; specimens illustrating Sarcoma; and Some Account of the Roll of Fellows of the Royal specimens illustrating Tuberculosis. College of Surgeons of England (1843-1922). FELLOWSHIP OF MEDICINE AND POST-GRADUATE Monday, April 24th. ODONTOLOGY : at 8 P.M. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.—The arrangements for the short Casual Communication: course in general medicine from May 1st to 13th, already Mr. J. Howard Mummery : Notes on Dental Diseases in announced, are now complete. Lectures and demonstrations Ancient Egypt, demonstrating some Photograph will be given at the following institutions : National Hospital forwarded by the late Sir Armand Ruffer. for Diseases of the Heart, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Royal Papers : Westminster Green Hos- Mr. Evelyn Sprawson : (1) A Case of Multiple Follicular Ophthalmic Hospital. Paddington Odontomes in the and for Middlesex London Lock (Dentigerous Cysts) Mandible, pital Ch:ldren, Hospital, Hospital, some remarks as to the Pathology of such Cysts. St. Mark’s Hospital, Maida Vale Hospital for Paralysis and (2) On the Significance of the Extra Cusp commonly Epilepsy. Brompton Hospital, and St. George’s Hospital. found in the Antero-internal Aspect of the Maxillary Application for copies of the syllabus and tickets admitting First Permanent Molar in Man. to the course should be made to the Secretary to the Fellow- Tuesday, April 25th. ship of Medicine, 1, Wimpole-street, London, W. 1. This MEDICINE : at 5 p.ni. course will be repeated during the summer, and corresponding Clinical Meeting at the Middlesex Hospital, W.