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University of EdinburghOn July 5 the honorary degree of LL.D. is to be conferred on

Sir Stanley Davidson and the honorary degree of M.A. onMr. N. E. Condon, chief technician in the department ofpharmacology.Royal College of Surgeons of England

Faculty of Ancesthetists.-Mr. Frankis Evans has beenre-elected and Dr. A. R. Hunter and Dr. B. A. Sellick electedto the board.

British Tuberculosis Association

A meeting of this Association, with the Sheffield RegionalThoracic Society, is to be held on April 6 and 7 in Nottingham.Further particulars may be had from the administrative secre-tary of the Association, 59, Portland Place, London, W.1.

From Disability to WorkThe British Council for Rehabilitation of the Disabled is to

hold a European international study course and conference onthis subject from July 1 to 7 at Cambridge University. Furtherparticulars may be had from the conference registrar of theCouncil, Tavistock House South, Tavistock Square, London,W.C.1.

The Elderly Individual in Modern SocietyA conference on this subject, organised by the National Old

People’s Welfare Council, is to be held from March 29 to 31in Eastbourne. The speakers will include Dr. G. E. Godberand Prof. R. E. Tunbridge. Further particulars may be hadfrom the secretary of the Council, 26, Bedford Square, London,W.C.1.

Nurses’ and Midwives’ SalariesAt a meeting on March 13 the management side of the

Nurses and Midwives Whitley Council refused to improve ontheir offer of a 21/2% salary increase. The staff side unani-

mously rejected this offer. The Royal College of Nursing,the Royal College of Midwives, and the Association of Hos-pital Matrons, all of whom are represented on the staff sideof the council, are now to act on the decision taken at a meetingof trained nurses held at the Royal College of Nursing on March12, and to seek an interview with the Minister of Health, TheNational Association of State Enrolled Nurses will beassociated with this action.

Royal SocietyThe 25 newly elected fellows df this society include two

members of the medical profession: Dr. C. E. Dent is professorof human metabolism in the University of London, at UniversityCollege Hospital Medical School; and Dr. M. R. Pollock ishead of the division of bacterial physiology at the NationalInstitute for Medical Research, London. The work of the

following other new fellows is closely associated with medicalresearch: .

Dr. H. K. F. Blaschko, senior research officer in the departmentof pharmacology, University of Oxford; Dr. F. R. Parrington, lec-turer in zoology and director of the museum of zoology in theUniversity of Cambridge; and Dr. Nikolaas Tinbergen, reader inanimal behaviour in the University of Oxford.

Wellcome Trust

Applications are invited for the Carlsberg-Wellcome travel-ling research fellowships for 1962-63 and the newly createdWellcome-Swedish exchange research fellowships in medicalscience for 1962-63. The object of these fellowships is to

encourage cooperation, on an exchange basis, between Danishand Swedish and British research-workers in any branch of thenatural sciences which has a bearing upon human and animalmedicine.One Carlsberg-Wellcome fellowship and one Wellcome-Swedish

exchange fellowship annually are awarded to candidates from the UnitedKingdom for a year’s work in Denmark or Sweden and one annually to aDanish and to a Swedish candidate for a year’s work in the United Kingdom.The stipend may range from S1000 to E2000 per annum (or the equivalentsums in Danish or Swedish Kroner); travelling and some incidental expensesare provided in addition. Further particulars may be had from the assistantscientific secretary of the trust, 52, Queen Anne Street, London, W.I.Applications must be submitted before April 19.

Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and HygieneThe Manson medal for 1962 has been awarded to Dr.

Edmond Sergent, director of the Pasteur Institute, Algiers, forhis researches on protozoa and spirochaetes.

Society for Psychosomatic ResearchEssay Prize for Research on a Psychosomatic Theme in General

Practice.-This prize for 1961 has been awarded to Dr. RobertKellner. The society is offering a further prize of E50, given bythe Sir Halley Stewart trust, for original observations on apsychosomatic theme studied in general practice. Entriesshould be sent to the secretary, 70, Harley Street, London,W.1, by Dec. 31.

Respiratory Virus DiseasesA course of lectures on this subject is to be held from

April 11 to 14 in the department of medicine of the UniversityHospital, Leiden. The speakers will include Sir ChristopherAndrewes, Dr. J. C. McDonald, Dr. Derek Hobson, Dr. AlickIsaacs, Dr. B. P. Marmion, Dr. H. G. Pereira, Prof. C. H.Stuart-Harris, Dr. David Taylor-Robinson, and Dr. D. A. J.Tyrrell. Further particulars may be had from the informationoffice of the Boerhaave postgraduate courses at the UniversityHospital.Institute for the Study and Treatment of DelinquencyA weekend conference on future trends in penal treatment is

to be held by this institute from April 27 to 29 in Folkestone.The speakers will include Dr. T. C. N. Gibbens. From May 11 Ito 13 at Avoncroft College, near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire,the institute is to hold a weekend course for psychiatrists onPrisoner or Patient-the problem of the criminal psychopath.The speakers, under the chairmanship of Dr. Donald Mac-millan, will be Dr. H. K. Snell, Mr. Kenneth Robinson, M.P.,and Dr. J. L. Clegg. Further particulars about both meetingsmay be had from the general secretary of the institute, 8,Bourdon Street, Davies Street, London, W.1.

North of England Neurological AssociationThis Association was formed at a meeting held at the

General Infirmary at Leeds on March 10. Its aim is to bringtogether in bi-annual meetings neurologists, neurosurgeons,and those working in the related neurological sciences, whowork in the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, Northum-berland, Durham, Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cheshire. Thefirst president is to be Dr. Hugh Garland, the hon. secretaryDr. J. N. Walton (Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle uponTyne), and the hon. treasurer Dr. L. A. Liversedge. Member-ship will be open to consultants, senior registrars, and othersof equivalent status. The first scientific meeting is to be heldat Leeds on Saturday, May 19.

British Pharmaceutical Conference

The centenary meeting of this conference is to be held fromSept. 2 to 6, 1963, in London.

On behalf of the Italian Minister for Education, Culture, and Artthe Italian ambassador in London has presented a gold medal toDr. G. E. W. Wolstenholme.

Appointments

BARKER, P. A., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.P., D.C.H., D.P.M. : consultant in childpsychiatry, Dundee area.

COLOVER, JACK, M.D. Lond., M.R.C.P. : consultant neurologist, Brook GeneralHospital, Woolwich, London, with consultative clinics in the Greenwichand Deptford, Seamen’s, Dartford, and Medway and Gravesendhospital groups.

GRIFFITH, ALWYN, M.B. Lpool, D.P.H. : assistant M.O. and school M.o.,Denbighshire, based on Wrexham.

Colonial AppointmentsFOSTER, W. G. S., M.R.C.S. : senior M.o., Dominica.JONES, C. R., M.B.E., M.B., B.SC. Wales, D.T.M. & H., D.P.H. : health adviser,

Aden Protectorate.LEITCH, NEIL, B.M. Oxon., D.T.M. & H., D.P.H.: permanent secretary3

Ministry of Health, Mauritius.RITCHIE-FALLON, G. F. B., M.B.: M.o., Seychelles.WASPE, D., M.B.: M.o., Bechuanaland.