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Society for the Study of AddictionProf. F. L. Golla will give his presidential address to this

society on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 4 P.M., at 11, Chandos Street,London, W.I. He is to speak on Problems for Research inthe Study of Addiction.B.C.G. Vaccine for BritainA consignment of B.C.G. vaccine from Copenhagen reached

London by air last Monday. Part went to the Children’s

Hospital, Sheffield, for vaccination of volunteers among thestaff.

Manufacture of StreptomycinStreptomycin can now be manufactured for sale in the

United Kingdom only under licence, and it must conformwith prescribed conditions as to strength, quality, and purity.These requirements are laid down in the Therapeutic Sub-stances Amendment Regulations, 1949, under which strepto-mycin is added to the schedule to the Therapeutic SubstancesAct, 1925, as being a substance the purity or potency ofwhich cannot be adequately tested by chemical means.National Hospital; Queen Square, London

Today, Friday, Oct. 7, Dr. Wilder Penfield, F.R.s.,directorof the Montreal Neurological Institute, will speak on Observa-tions on the Anatomy of Memory. On Monday, Oct. 10,Dr. Foster Kennedy (New York) will speak on Allergic Mani-

festations in the Nervous System, and on Thursday, Oct. 13,Prof. G. H. Monrad-Krohn (Oslo) on Diagnostic Errors inNeurological Practice. All three lectures will be held in theinstitute of neurology at the hospital at 5 P.M.British Trust for Social Studies

This trust, to encourage social research of scientific andpractical importance, offers small grants to free-lance

investigators who are well placed for social observation butwho would have to work up the material in their spare time :for example, a colliery manager, a probation officer, a hospitalalmoner, a shop steward, the warden of a hostel, the editorof a local newspaper. Application forms may be obtained,by post only, from Miss Marion Nuttall, secretary of thetrust, 16, Queen Anne’s Gate, London, S.W.I.Middlesex Hospital DinnerPresiding over the annual dinner of the Middlesex Hospital

Medical School on Sept. 30, Prof. E. C. Dodds, F.R.S., spokewith deep regret of the recent death of Mr. Turner Warwickat the height of his influence in the hospital. He describedthe school as the most remarkable in London, .because the

. founders had tried to keep the students’ education on scientificlines as broad as possible. The tradition founded by Bellhad been continued by Bland-Sutton (who indicated thatMiddlesex should be a school of research besides being a schoolfor training doctors) and by Webb-Johnson ; and he himselfwas eternally grateful that, with his colleagues, he had beenallowed to develop the Courtauld Institute of Biochemistrywithout any apparent tie-up with medicine. Professor Doddsalso spoke wistfully of the good old days when there was nolimit to the number of times one could take the 1st, 2nd,or final M.B., and when discerning parents, for a compositionfee of £150, could cover their sons’ tuition for as many yearsas might be necessary. After his tenth year the senior studenthad become quite an important person ; and the 1916 entry,to which Professor Dodds belonged, was distinguished inhaving contained probably the most senior student of all

time, who retained his status till 1935.Dr. H. E. A. Boldero, the dean, said that the past year, though

it had seen the birth of the National Health Service and theseparation of school from hospital under a new charter, hadbeen satisfactorily uneventful. He paid warm tributes, ofdifferent kinds, to Prof. John Kirk, retiring from the chair ofanatomy; to Mr. R. A. Foley, succeeded as secretary of theschool by Miss Eileen Walton ; and to Dr. William Sladen,decorated for his courage and fortitude in hazardous circum-stances when isolated in Graham Land as medical officerto the Falkland Islands Dependencies survey. Dr. R. T.Turner Warwick, senior Broderip scholar, spoke of sportingevents rather than the traditional complaints. Dr. G. E.Beaumont, proposing The Chairman, said that ProfessorDodds owed his success to a curious combination of concen-tration and contemplation, which had enabled him, for

example, to discover the new star Stilboestrol. The MedicalResearch Council had been able to point to stilbœstrol asjustifying all the money they had spent on medical research :and at one time it had even been hoped that it would closethe dollar gap.

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North of England Otolaryngological- SocietyThe annual meeting of this society will be held at the

Harrogate and District General Hospital, KnaresboroughRoad, Harrogate, on Saturday, Oct. 15, at 2 r.x.General Board of Control for ScotlandThe Secretary of State for Scotland has appointed Dr.

Catherine Begg to be a deputy commissioner of the board.Dr. Begg, who graduated M.B. at Glasgow University in 1932,is at present senior medical officer at Stoneyetts MentalHospital, Chryston, Glasgow.Welsh National School of Medicine

Dr. F. R. G. Heaf has been appointed to the David Daviesprofessorship of tuberculosis. -

Dr. Heaf took the Conjoint qualification from St. Thomas’sHospital in 1918, and, after holding various house-appointmentsthere, his M.B. Lond. two years later. His earlier papers on theTrachea in Tuberculosis and on Sanocrysin Treatment of Pul-monary Tuberculosis reflect his interests during the clinical periodof his career when he was superintendent of the King Edward VIISanatorium, Warwick, and later of the Colindale Hospital, Hendon.Last year he was a co-editor of the fourth edition of the late L. S. T.

Burrell’s Recent Advances in Respiratory Tuberculosis and he isstill consulting physician to Papworth Village Settlement and toPreston Hall Colony, and honorary consulting medical-direetor ofthe British Legion Village. With his appointment to the post ofa senior medical officer with the London County Council, andadviser in tuberculosis to the Ministry of Health, the focus of hisinterests has naturally shifted, and his later papers deal withthe rehabilitation of the tuberculous and with social aspects oftuberculosis. Dr. Heaf is president of the Tuberculosis Associationand chairman of the Tuberculosis Education Institute. He waselected F.R.C.P. in 1946.

King’s College Hospital DinnerAt the annual dinner on Oct. 1, Dr. Wilfrid Oakley proposed

the Medical School, which, he said, had always done its bestto give students clinical experience, which was not the samething as the shifting dullness of the ward round. The schoolhad a certain touch of unconventionality, and liberty was thevery spirit of progress. Mr. Harold Edwards, the dean,said that last year some 900 students applied for 50 places.The final selection was made by personal interview, andthough it was distressing to reject the son or daughter ofan old King’s man, he felt sure that all would prefer theirchildren to get their place in the same way as anyone else.Negotiations were continuing hopefully for acquiring theadditional hospital beds absolutely necessary for the develop-ment of the school. Dr. Sydney Thomson said that schooland hospital were living very happily together, thoughofficially living in sin. Sir Hugh Cairns had found at King’sfine students, a happy atmosphere, and the faint trace ofarrogance which he considered healthy and " which I amsure endears you to all the other London schools." He hopedthat in the National Health Service doctors would take careto guard their professional freedom-to be outspoken-andhe thought that all should fight to preserve the position ofthe general practitioner, to which perhaps not enough atten-tion had been paid so far. Dr. Terence East proposing thehealth of The Chairman, Dr. J. H. Sheldon of Wolver-

hampton, referred to his inquiries into bone diseases, anorexianervosa, hsemochromatosis, and latterly old age, and also tohis naval service, his mountaineering, his cycling, and hisornithology. Dr. Sheldon, in reply, remarked that King’shad early discovered that in times of financial stringencyexports were the thing to go for. He had exported himself toWolverhampton, and he strongly believed that this policyof export from London should continue.

Colonel M. Stoddart-Scott, M.P., has been elected chairmanof the British Rheumatic Association in succession to the lateDr. F. Hernaman-Johnson.

CORRIGENDUM : Vitamin E.-In line 6 of Dr. Ferrero’sletter of Sept. 24 (p. 579) the amount of ergotamine tartrateshould have been printed as 50 mg., not as 5 mg.

AppointmentsDOBSON, S. C., B.M. Oxfd : consultant pathologist (deputy senior

pathologist), Portsmouth and Isle of Wight pathologicalservice.MACLEAN, 1. H., M.B. Edin., D.T.M.: consultant bacteriologist,

Mental Hospitals’ Group Laboratory, Epsom.ROLLASON, W. N, M.B. Birm., D.A. : consultant ansesthetist,

hospitals in Hull A and Hull B hospital management committeegroups.

SHARP, WILLIAM, M.B. Leeds, D.P.M. : consultant physician for-

mental denciency, western part of East Anglian hospitals region.Runwell Hospital, Essex :Tow, P. M., M.B. Lond. : clinical research fellow.VALENTINE, M. G., M.D. Aberd., D.p.M. : senior registrar.