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1138 as well as malarial rice fields and swamps in Malaya, and this observation was the origin of various biological methods of control. In connexion with this antimalarial work he has contributed to knowledge of its pathological effects and its tendency to increase the number of deaths included in that ill-defined category " other diseases." The system of subsoil drainage widely used in Malaya to-day is largely a result of his efforts. In 1924 he commenced antimalarial measures in Assam, and later he organised a branch of the Ross Institute in India. His work, contained in some 70 published papers, shows clearly how, even while engaged in the practical application of the most promising of the known methods of prevention, he was constantly investigating fresh methods. At the annual meeting of the school on the same day the foundation was announced of a chair of tropical hygiene. American College of Surgeons At the recent congress of the College held in Boston. honorary fellowships were conferred on : Sir Harold Gillies, Prof. Josef Halban (Vienna), Mr. Harry Platt, and Dr. Bethel Solomons. Royal Statistical Society At a meeting of this society to be held in the hall of the Royal Society of Arts, Jolm-street, Adelphi, London, at 5.15 P.M. on Tuesday, Nov. 20th, Dr. Major Greenwood, F.R.S., professor of epidemiology and vital statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, will deliver a presidential address on university education, its recent history and function. National Health Insurance-Arrears Payments The Minister of Health has decided to extend the period of grace within which insured persons other than voluntary contributors may pay any arrears of National Health Insurance contributions in respect of the con- tribution year which ended on July lst last. The period of grace would normally expire on Nov. 30th, 1934, but will be extended to March 31st, 1935, so that any insured person in arrears, who makes the appropriate payment before then will be entitled to full cash benefits in 1935, after a waiting period of four weeks from the date of the arrears payment. University of Birmingham A readership in industrial hygiene and medicine has recently been created at this university. The new department is designed to coordinate existing knowledge concerning industrial health, to undertake research into possible causes of industrial illness, and to give facilities for the post-graduate study of the subject. It is the first department of its kind in this country, and Dr. Howard E. Collier has been appointed as the first reader. Dr. Collier was born in 1890 and educated at Reading School and University College, Reading. He graduated Ch.13. at Edinburgh in 1914. After holding resident positions at hospitals in Ramsgate and Reading he received a commission in the R.A.M.C.(T.) in 1915, and saw service with the Mediterranean expeditionary force and also in France and Flanders where he was regimental medical officer to the 1st Gloucestershire Regi- ment. After a brief period of service with the Army of Occupation he was awarded the M.C., and in 1919 he settled in general practice in Redditch («’orcs). In 1921 he was appointed certifying factory surgeon and district medical officer of health for Redditch. The variety of industrial processes carried on in this area gave Dr. Collier opportunity to develop his interest in industrial health problems and he has made a special study of lead poisoning, of chrome ulcer, of industrial dermatoses, and of gas poisoning. British Empire Cancer Campaign At the quarterly meeting of the Grand Council held on Nov. 12th, Sir Holburt Waring presiding, grants were allocated totalling over f20,000 for the year 1935. "68000 to the Cancer Research Department of the Middlesex Hospital. :65000 to the Cancer Hospital (Free). k2500 to the Cancer Research Department of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. z22000 to Mount Vernon Hospital..?650 to the Cancer Research Department of St. Mark’s Hospital..6600 to the Marie Curie Hospital. £ 550 to Mr. 1. Hieger, working at the Cancer Hospital. .6500 to the Westminster Hospital..6350 for the Radon Centre at the Middlesex Hospital (through the Medical Research Council)..6350 to the Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge. 300 to Dr. P. R. Peacock, for the salary of an assistant, at the Glasgow Royal Cancer Hospital. 200 to Dr. Alexander Haddow, working at Edinburgh University. ;6200 to Mrs. Barbara Holmes, working at Cambridge. ;6100 to Mr. W. S. S. Ladell, working at King’s College Hospital. Also a sum of f1750 for the salaries and expenses of two whole-time workers, who will investigate schemes of research initiated by the scientific advibOry committee of the Campaign. The trustees of the late Mr. David Shields Crawford, of Edinburgh, have given f5000 to the Campaign. THE Children’s Section of the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, founded in 1885 and rebuilt in 1902, has been renamed the Princess Elizabeth Hospital. Dr. Edith Summerskill is standing in the Labour interest at the by-election in the Putney division of Wandsworth. British Health Resorts Association The annual general meeting of this association will be held at the Institute of Hygiene, 28, Portland-place, London, W., at 3.30 P.M., on Thursday, Nov. 22nd. Royal Northern Hospital The dining club of this hospital will meet at the Cafe Royal, Regent-street, W., on Friday, Nov. 23rd, at 8.30 r.M. The president, Mr. M. Coleman, will be in the chair, and Lord Horder, consulting physician to the hospital, will be the guest of the club. The hon. secretary is Dr. H. A. Cowan, 32, Fitzroy-square, London, W.l. Continental Anglo-American Medical Society At a recent meeting of this society held in Paris, Dr. Leonard Robinson being in the chair, it was decided to arrange a scientific programme on the Riviera at a time to be decided by members practising there, preferably during the Christmas vacation. Clinical demonstrations will be given at the American Hospital by the Paris members during the meeting next May. British Science Guild The tenth annual Norman Lockyer lecture will be given at 4.30 P.M. on Wednesday, Nov. 28th, in the Goldsmiths’ Hall, London, E.C., when Prof. J. B. S. Haldane, F.R.S., professor of genetics in the University of London, will speak on human biology and its applications. Tickets may be had from the secretary of the Guild, 6, John-street, Adelphi, London, W.C.2. Instruction for D.P.M. A series of lectures and practical courses will be given in January and February (part I.) and in March and May (part 11.), 1935, at the Maudsley Hospital, Denmark-hill, London, S.E., primarily to candidates for diplomas in psychological medicine. The lecturers and demonstrators include Dr. F. L. Golla, Captain S. A. Mann, D.Sc., Dr. Henry Devine, Dr. Edward Mapother, Prof. F. A. P. Aveling, Dr. F. C. Shrubsall, Dr. Thomas Tennent, Mr. R. Foster Moore, Dr. Bernard Hart, Dr. A. J. Lewis, Dr. Mildred Creak, Sir Hubert Bond, and Dr. W. Norwood East. Particulars of the series, which begins on Jan. 1st, may be had from Dr. Golla, hon. director of the medical school, at the hospital. BUCKSTON BROWNE DINNER ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND IN 1927 Sir Buckston Browne endowed a dinner, to be held annually on the College premises, for fellows and members and such others as the president and council may invite. At least half those attending were to be members of the College. Speaking at the seventh of these dinners on Nov. Sth Sir Holburt Waring, the president, referred appreciatively to this endeavour to promote good fellowship between all those connected academically with the College. It had been said in the past that the College had . not given as much attention to surgical progress as it might have done. Now, however, through its extensive laboratories and by scholarships at the Radium Institute and elsewhere, it was fostering excellent work by which the standards of surgery would undoubtedly be advanced. Among the investigations of the Leverhulme, Buckston Browne, and College scholars he mentioned especially the observations of Mr. Laurence O’Shaughnessy and Dr. David Slome on the cause of traumatic shock, and spoke of a new investigation into the causes of deformities arising from trauma and wound opera- tions ; he did not agree with the view that the art of surgery had reached its zenith and was capable of no further improvement. In its capacity as an
