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DICKSON University— Royal Melbourne Hosp. Clin. School— A. STEWART FERGUSON IAN MacCULLUM Alfred Hosp. Clin. School— Division I. A. H. KEECH WARWICK ROSENTHAL Women JEAN HILL CONTENTS Page Page Professor R. D. Wright 9 Korc Advice to Students on Commencing Pigmentation of Tissues in Human their Studies .. 13 Physiology .. 29 Temperature Charts and their Diagnostic Editorial .. 15 • ri A Value . 33 A Fourth•Year Student Arrives at National Insurance and Medical Students Hospital .. 36 • 17 Year Notes .. 40 Pain 21 Women's Notes .. Bigelimetry 46 24 48 Highlights from the Silver Annipessary Old Boys' Column .. 51 Medleys of 1939 26 Annual Exam. Results .. „ 53 PROFESSOR R. DOUGLAS WRIGHT. The portrait is by Dr. Julian Smith, Senior, through whose kindness it is published. _433 The Speculum4" No. 142 July, 1939 Professor R. D. Wright By Professor P. MacCallum. The University of Melbourne has been particularly fortunate in the high quality of the occupants of the Chair of Physiology. When men of the intellectual stature of W. A. Osborne retire, some apprehension is a natural part of the expectancy with which the appointment of a successor is awaited. This is particularly the case when the choice falls on a person from overseas of whom we have no immediate knowledge. But in Roy Douglas Wright there has been appointed one we all know, an Australian, a Melbourne graduate, a man after Osborne's own heart, proven as a teacher in our midst and as a research worker both in our own school and abroad. '11;1 There remains no cause for apprehension. The luck of the University of Melbourne in its Professors of Physiology holds. There had been a growing suspicion in Ulverstone, Tasmania (though no sur- prise in the Wright family), that the boy was bright. It was deepened when a Junior Bursary took him to the Devonport High School, was confirmed there by a Bursary and seven credit passes in the Junior Public Examination and became a rumour of some dimensions when together with eight credit passes in the Leaving Certificate Examination he collected an Education Department Scholarship, a Science Scholar- ship, a General Scholarship, a Gilchrist Watt Scholarship and a Sir Richard Dry Exhibition to the University of Tasmania. Here the Ulverstone legend had scarcely time to take root before! he absconded with High Distinctions and prizes in Physics, Chemistry and Biology and an Entrance Scholarship to Queen's College, Melbourne. He entered a medical course in the University of Melbourne in 1925. Melbourne pays small heed to Tasmanian rumour. After all Tasmania is a small place. How , ever, first place in Anatomy and Physiology was a good start in the first year, and Exhibitions in both subjects next year confirmed Queen's in the habit of giving him Senior Scholarships. A First Class in Pathology and First Class Honours in all subjects of the Final and first place in the final aggregate together with the Exhibition in Surgery, completed a Medical Course (1929), with but few equals for examination brilliance. Melbourne had begun to adopt the faith of Ulverstone. Having qualified in convincing fashion to enter on an apprenticeship to a career, the opportunity surgery affords of access to the ideal experimental animal for the study of human physiology and its application in the treatment of disease attracted him first to that subject. He spent a year as Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and his course seemed set.