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University of CambridgeThe following degrees have been conferred:M.Chir.-R. L. Rothwell-Jackson.M.B.-Anthony Kenny, Felicity A. Snee.

University of BirminghamThe following degrees have been conferred:M.D.-Peter Hicken, C. J. Roberts.Ph.D. (in the faculty of medicine).-A. R. Boyns.M.B., Ch.B.-P. C. Gini, M. W. R. Gough, Mohammed Ismail Hajee

Kassim, D. N. West.

University of BristolAt an examination for the degrees of M.B., CH.B. the following

were successful:Ruth Barry, W. R. P. Bevington, K. W. Browne, P. J. Conway, R. A. F.

Garnett, Sheku Deen Gassama, Wendy G. George, Jill Glynn, F. G. H. Hill,D. H. Jackson, Vyvyan J. Joy, Sui-Lin Lian, 1. Z. Mackenzie, Abdul HatibNjie, A. E. Pointer, G. C. Purnell, M. B. Ranson, Sandra J. Savage.

University of LeedsAt recent examinations for the degrees of M.B., B.CH. the

following were successful:T. N. Appleyard, A. F. Cargill, Ahmad Kamal Eid, Vivienne Parker.

University of LiverpoolDr. D. H. Smith has been appointed lecturer in tropical

medicine.

University of Newcastle upon TyneOn Dec. 14 the following degrees and diplomas were

conferred:M.D.-A. R. Buchan, Andrew Davis, N. R. Rowell, P. R. Uldall.Ph.D. in medicine.-Sahib Jawad Mossawy.M.B., B.S.-D. G. Colin-Thome, T. D. Kinnis, Peter Pain.Dip. Psych. Med.-A. A. Sugerman.

University of EdinburghThe following degrees and diplomas have been conferred:M.D.-J. L. Boak, Pierre Flor-Henry (commended); J. H. Barber, J. A.

Birtchnell, W. B. Dawson.Ph.D. (in the faculty of medicine).-C. T. M. Davies, C. C. Fonseka,

Leela Ganguli, Mudiyanselage Gunapala Jayasundera, J. S. Kelly, MiahAbdul Latif, A. G. C. Renwick, Rajendra Prakash Sapru, H. P. Staunton,H. J. Walton, M. E. Wilson.M.B., Ch.B.-A. J. Carter, G. S. Cruickshank, A. N. Dick, C. I. Doris,

A. C. P. Finlayson, R. H. Hunt, H. E. F. Hvistendahl, Chandra BhanLatchman, E. S. Maguire, P. W. L. Mallett, D. C. Newman, S. Pickens,P. S. Rose, H. R. Thomas, Yo Yuasa.D.M.R.D.-Sulaiman Botsende Lagundoye, W. H. A. MacMahon,

Maganlal Popatlal Patel.D.M.R.T.-Patricia E. Burns, Margaret A. Elder.Dip.Psych.Med.-Amechi Anumonye, Alexander Ayodele Omayone

Binitie, Brian Jordan, A. K. Zealley.

Royal College of Surgeons of EdinburghAt a meeting of the college on Dec. 16, with Prof. G. I. Scott,

the president, in the chair, the following were admitted to thefellowship:

Nabil Suleiman Abdul Hadi, J. R. W. Ackermann, W. S. Adam, SalimMajid Al-Sharma, Faisal Abdul Rahim Al-Sudani, Abdul Khalig AlwanAl-Uzri, Mohammed Asif, Tariq Awad, Ramakrishna Kadayam Babunar-ayan, G. M. Baird, C. H. Beckerling, E. J. Beckenham, Sawsan MansourBekhit, J. H. A. Black, Waalko Joost Boerema, P. G. Bond, G. A. Brown,J. D. Brown, B. D. Callaghan, Ahindra Nath Chakraborty, Phi Chong Cheah,Benny Shao-Lin Cheng, Christopher Cheyne, Harbans Singh Chhabra,W. B. Coman, Shashikant Venkatidas Darbar, Amitava De, Suresh GajananDeshpande, Md. Hares Dewan, A. C. Dowe, Rati Kanta Dutta, Fouad AliElezaby, J. A. M. Findlay, M. J. P. Fogarty, P. L. Frank, C. S. B. Galasko,Jayantabrata Ghosh, Sat-Kanta Ghosh, Rahim Gul, Rajakumar Gulasek-haram, Raghunath Shankar Gulavani, A. L. Hellestrand, Kanbawza KhinHlaing, D. W. Hunter, S. L. Javett, Sk. Humayun Kabir, Aziz Ahmad Khan,Mohammed Saleem Khwaja, 1. B. Kirkland, Kulbir Singh Lamba, J. K.Lang, Shun Kwong Lee, J. R. Lipert, R. A. Loane, J. M. Lynch, NadarajahManoharan, Averil 0. Mansfield, H. S. P. Maxwell, K. J. Mayman, W. F.Millner, W. G. V. Mitchell, Dwipen Kumar Mitra, P. R. W. Monahan,Baidya Nath Mukherjee, Debi Sankar Mukhopadhyay, Krishna KumarMukhopadhyay, Murigeppa Keerteppa Nagathan, M. G. Neely, PhraoNivatvongs, Victor Odigie Naiwu Odiase, Nerevissery SubramanianPadmanabhan, Cambyse Panahy, Shyam Kumar Parshar, Rajaram MathuPatil, P. H. Pattisson, I. M. Pinder, Domingos Joseph Diago Teodoro Pinto,Badr Ul Islam Pirzada, Parmanand Vijay Poonai, Mohammad Rafi Qamar,Davloor Ramakrishna, Suresh Anantnarayan Rao, Zakir Husain HatimbhaiRassiwala, Hema Rathod, Kareti Venkata Krishna Reddy, Mirghani Sanhouri,Srikumar Sarkar, Pudiapuram Shamsuddin, Siba Prasad Shom, AbdulkarimSiddiqui, Harjeet Mangat Singh, S. L. R. Stanton, Helen J. Stewart,Anwar Rashid Toosy, T. E. Torbet, Samuel Isaiah Williams, S. S. Willie,Tin Win, Douglas Worgan, J. L. Wosornu, Haziq-Ul-Yaqin, Yu Kai Yu,Abdul Hamid Zaighum, Faysal Saeed Zeerah.

Wellcome TrustThis Trust has given Ell,000 to buy ancillary X-ray equip-

ment for a study of the incidence of bilharzia in Nigeria, whichis being carried out under the direction of Prof. A. 0. Lucasat University College Hospital, Ibadan.

Hospital Board AppointmentsMr. Kenneth Younger has been appointed chairman of the

Board of Governors of St. George’s Hospital, London; LadyLlewelyn-Davies chairman of the Board of Governors of theHospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London;and Mrs. E. W. Parsons chairman of the Board of Governorsof the United Cambridge Hospitals.Selection of Patients for Dialysis UnitAt the suggestion of the consultant who is to be in charge of

the new intermittent renal dialysis unit at Lodge Moor Hospital,the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board has agreed to set up apanel to which the consultant may turn for advice in determin-ing priorities for treatment among suitable patients. The

composition of the panel is to be considered further by theBoard’s medical committee.

Cancer Research Grants for 1967The British Empire Cancer Campaign has given a total of

El,024,101 to nineteen centres in the United Kingdom forresearch in 1967, and a further E30,420 to centres in the WestIndies, Fiji, Kampala, Ibadan, and Nairobi. The three largestgrants awarded in the U.K. are to the Institute of CancerResearch, Royal Cancer Hospital, London (E231,000); to theMiddlesex Hospital Medical School, London (E162,721); andto the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, Manchester(E134,250). Grants abroad are awarded chiefly to set up andrun local cancer registries, and the largest has gone to MakerereUniversity College in Kampala (E21,983).

Sir Arthur Porritt has been appointed the next governor-generalof New Zealand.

Dr. A. L. Stalker will give an Erasmus Wilson demonstration at theRoyal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London IW.C.2, on Wednesday, Jan. 4, at 5 P.M. The title will be Blood-sludging-Myth or Reality ?

Prof. A. J. Harding Rains will give a lecture at the Wolfson Insti- ,

tute, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Ducane Road, LondonW.12, on Friday, Jan. 6, at 10.15 A.M. His subject will be biliarysurgery.

Clinical demonstrations, open to doctors without fee, will be heldat the Institute of Diseases of the Chest, Brompton Hospital, LondonS.W.3, on Fridays at 5 P.M., from Jan. 13 to March 17. Open lectureswill be held on Wednesdays at 5 P.M., from Jan. 11 to March 8.

An exhibition of medical coats of arms and seals is on view at’the

Royal College of Physicians of London, 11 St. Andrew’s Place,London N.W.I, until Tuesday, March 14. It includes the arms, seal,and motto of the college and the arms of fellows.

CORRIGENDUM: The World’s Deformities.-The third sentence inthe third paragraph of our leader last week should read:

" Thus the

frequency of monozygotic twins ranges from 1-9 to 8-4 per thousandbirths, but of dizygotic twins from 2-7 to 32-2 per thousand, the upperfigure for dizygotic twins coming from Alexandria."

AppointmentsBARTH, C. E., F.R.C.S.E.: consultant general surgeon (with an interest in

urology), Stirlingshire area.GoODwiN, H. A., M.B. Wales: M.o., Luang Prabang, Laos.KENDALL, B. E., M.B. Dubl., M.R.C.P., F.F.R., D.M.R.D. : consultant radiologist,

Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London.WEEKS, R. L., M.R.C.S.: M.o., Thakhek, Laos.

Birmingham Regional Hospital Board: ICOURT, G. A., M.B. Cantab., F.R.C.S. : consultant surgeon, Coventry i

hospital group.EADE, A. W. T., M.B., B.sc. Lond., M.R.C.P., D.PHYS.MBD.: consultant in

physical medicine, Coventry hospital group.FOTHERGILL, R. J., M.B. Birm., M.R.C.O.G., D.OBST.: consultant obstetrician

and gynaecologist, Lichfield, Sutton Coldfield, and Tamworthhospital group.

JONES, E. E., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.P., M.R.C.O.G., D.C.H. : consultant paedia-trician, Coventry hospital group.