174 BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 19 OCTOBER 1974 Eye Research at Open University INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY.-5.30 p.m., Dr. C. Dare: MEDICAL NEWS Open and Closed Secrets in the Family. The- Medical Research has Council given Wednesday, 23 October Br Med J: first published as 10.1136/bmj.4.5937.174 on 19 October 1974. Downloaded from £9,263 for a research project on disorders INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY.-6 p.m., Dr. W. A. Medical Members of Parliament of the cornea to be carried out at the Open Cobb: The Centrencephalic Concept; 7 p.m., Professor D. A. Pond: Epidemiology of Epilepsy. University. The research team, headed by PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN.-At Thirtv-three members of the medical pro- Professor Gerald Elliott, is to study electrlic Senate House, London University, 7 p.m., Han- fession stood as candidates in the general charge distribution, swelling, and trans- bury memorial lecture by Professor A. H. Beckett: election held on Importance of Three Dimensions in Biological 10 October and the follow- parency of the cornea. The Open Univer- Action. ing nine, who were members of the pre- sity's eye research unit was set up two years OXFORD UNIVERSITY.-At Radcliffe Infirmary, 5 vious Parliament March p.m., Gavin Livingstone memorial lecture by Mr. (see B.M.7., 16 ago and has been measuiring molecular E. E. Douek: Detecting the Deaf Child. 1974, p. 525), were again elected to the distances in normal and disteased corneas House of Commnons: by x-ray techniques. Thursday, 24 Oclober Dr. R. F. B. Bennett (Con., Fareham), ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY.-5 p.m., Dr. M. L. N. Willoughby: Current Aspects of Paediatric Sir Alfred Broughton (Lab., Batley and People in the News Haematclogy. Morley), Mr. J. D. Cronin (Lab., Lough- ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON.-5 p.m., Dr. T. C. Hunt Philip Ellman lecture by Dr. V. Dubowitz: borough), Dr. A. J. Glyn (Con., Windsor succeeds the late Dr. A. H. Neuromuscular Disorders in Childhood-Old and Maidenhead), Dr. J. Dickson Mabon Douthwaite (obituary, 5 October, p. 50) as Dogmas, New Concepts. cha.rman of the ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL.-5.15 (Lab., Greenock and Port Glasgow), Dr. Medical Sickness Annuity p.m., Dr. H. S. Jacobs: Diagnostic Approaches to M. S. Miller (Lab., East Kilbride), Dr. and Life Assurance Society Ltd. Sir Clifford Secondary Amenorrhoea. D. A. L. Owen (Lab., Plymouth, Devon- Naunton Morgan becomes vice-chairman in port), Dr. Shirley C. W. Summnerskill (Lab., place of Dr. Hunt. Halifax), Dr. G. F. Vaughan (Con., Reading, UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES So3uth). COMING EVENTS BRISTOL The following twenty-four were not elected: M.D.-E. W. Pomare. Dr. H. Royal College of Psychiatrists.-Quarterly PH.D.-In the Faculty of Medicine: P. N. Dixon, W. Allchin (Lab., Winchester), Dr. D. Meeting, 14-15 November, Institute of Psychiatry M. Edjtehadi, Diane E. Gunson, R. C. Wardley. Baxter (Nat. 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