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minister and minister for foreign affairs, and had lengthydiscussions with the president of the Chinese Red Cross Society.In these discussions the Chinese Red Cross Society were askedwhether, as an interim measure, while the International RedCross Committee were unable to carry out their traditionalduties in North Korea, they would act on the committee’sbehalf. They were particularly requested to distribute medicalsupplies to United Nations prisoners-of-war and others, toprovide assistance in the transmission of correspondence, andto assist in the transport of food parcels to United Nationsprisoners-of-war. The president of the International RedCross Committee had emphasised that his talks with theChinese Red Cross were most satisfactory. ’

Diary of the Week

MAY 20 TO 26Monday, 21stINSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY, Judd Street, W.C.1

5.30 P.M. Mr. A. B. Nutt: Congenital Ocular Palsies. ’

WEST LONDON MEDICO-OHIRURGIOAL SOCIETY8.30 P.M. (1, Wimpole Street, W.I.) Bishop of Birmingham :

Over-population. (Cavendish lecture.)INSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY, 330, Gray’s Inn Road,

W.C.15 P.M. Miss D. T. Collier : Treatment of Facial Paralysis.

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM4 P.M. (Medical School.) Sir Edward Mellanby, F.R.S. : Nutri-

tional Effects on Bone and the Nervous System. (FirstWilliam Withering lecture.)

Tuesday, 22ndROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C.2

3.45 P.M. Dr. James Craigie, F.R.S.; Phase-contrast Microscopyof Mouse Sarcomas. (Imperial Cancer Research Fundlecture.)

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UNIVERSITY OF LONDON5.30 P.M. (Westminster Medical School, Horseferry Road, S.W. 1.)

Prof. Warren H. Cole (Chicago) : Surgery of the BiliarySystem. (First of two lectures.)

WRIGHT-FLEMING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY, St. Mary’s HospitalMedical School, W.2

5 P.M. Dr. C. H. Andrewes, F.R.s. : Aspects of Immunity toInfluenza. (Almroth Wright lecture.)

ROYAL EYE HOSPITAL, St. George’s Circus, Southwark, .E.15 P.M. Dr. T. H. Whittington : Diplopia.

WEST END HOSPITAL FOR NERVOUS DISEASES, 40, MaryleboneLane, W.I

2.30 P.M. Dr. Colin Edwards : Sciatic Pain.INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, St. John’s Hospital, Lisle Street,

W.C.25 P.M. Dr. R. M. B. MaoEenna : History of Dermatology.

INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY5.30 P.M. Dr. Dorothy Campbell: Vision in Conditions of Low

_ Illumination.

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM4 P.z. Sir Edward Mellanby : Nutritional Effects on Bone and

the Nervous System. (Second William Withering lecture.)

Wednesday, 23rdROYAL EYE HOSPITAL

5.30 P.M. Mr. R. P. CRICK : Theory and Management of Squint.INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY

5 P.M. Dr. H. Haber : Precancerous Conditions of the Skin.UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

4 P.M. Sir Edward Mellanby : Nutritional Effects on Bone andthe Nervous System. (Last William Withering lecture.)

Thursday, 24thUNIVERSITY COLLEGE, Gower Street, W.C.1

4.45 P.M. Mr. D. J. Bell : Biological Syntheses ConcerningCarbohydrate Radicles. (First of four lectures.)

ROYAL EYE HOSPITAL5 P.M. Dr. S. Nevin : Myopathies in Ocular Practice. ,

ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, Hyde Park Corner, S.V.1 14.30 P.M. Dr. Denis Williams : Neurology lecture-demonstration.

INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY5.30 P.M. Dr. F. A. Elliott: Visual Attention.MEDICO-LEGAL SOCIETY, 26, Portland Place, W.I

8.15 P.M. Dr. Leslie Narman : Medicine in Industry.HONYMAN GILLESPIE LECTURE

5 P.M. (University New Buildings, Teviot Place, Edinburgh.)Dr. N. W. Horne : Tuberculous Meningitis.

UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS5 P.M. (Medical School, Small’s Wynd, Dundee.) Prof. J. D.

Boyd : Pigment Cells of the Body.

Friday, 25thROYAL COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS, 58, Queen

Anne Street, W.I5 P.M. Prof. H. L. Sheehan : Anuria in Obstetrics. (Blair-Bell

lecture.) °

ROYAL EYE HOSPITAL5 P.M. Miss M. Savory : Uses of Thrombin and Fibrinogen in

Ophthalmology.INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY

5.30 P.M. Dr. Brian Russell: Clinical demonstration.

ObituaryPERCIVAL MACLEOD YEARSLEY

F.R.C.S.Mr. Macleod Yearsley, formerly consulting aural

surgeon to St. James’ Hospital, Balham, and to theLondon County Council, died at Gerrard’s Cross on May 4,at the age of 83.A collateral descendant of Dr. James Yearsley, the

pioneer ear, nose, and throat surgeon in this country,he was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School and theWestminster and London Hospitals. In 1890 he qualified,and he took his F.R.c.s. three years later.

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He was appointed to the staff of the old Royal EarHospital, then in Soho, of which in due course he becamesenior surgeon, and he was the first aural surgeon tothe London County Council, for whom he carried outimportant investigations among school-children. He alsointerested himself in the welfare of deaf-mutes.A man of many interests, Macleod Yearsley wrote

some delightful fairy tales, studied the story of theBible, discussed the sanity of Hamlet and doctors inElizabethan drama, took a scientific interest in theZoological Society, translated Forel’s Sensations desinsectes, and was an archaeologist of repute. In hisown specialty he wrote a Textbook on Diseases of the Ear(1908) and another on Nursing in Diseases of the Throat,Nose and Ear. Later he became greatly interested inthe Zund-Burguet electrophonoid treatment of deafness,on which he wrote a monograph in 1933. Energetic,open-minded, and many-faceted, he was looked upon asrather a stormy petrel by his contemporaries; but hemellowed with time, to be regarded with respect andadmiration by otologists of today.

In his later years Yearsley retired to Gerrard’s Cross,where he became ear, nose, and throat surgeon to thelocal hospital. He married Florence Louise, daughter ofthe late Dr. C. M. Cooper, and she survives him with a son.

GERALDO HORACIO DE PAULA SOUZA -M.D.

INTERNATIONAL health has suffered a loss in the deathafter a short illness of Prof. G. H. de Paula Souza,director and professor of public health at the Universityof Sao Paulo, Brazil. Beginning his career in internationalhealth as a medical officer of the Health Organisation ofthe League of Nations, he served for a time with UNRRAduring the war and represented Brazil at the TechnicalPreparatory Commission in Paris and the World HealthConference in New York in 1946. and on the ExecutiveBoard and at the World Health Assemblies of W.H.O.He will chiefly be remembered for his successful insistence,with the representative of China, that the San Franciscoconference should include health in the functions andstructure of the United Nations, as well as for his concernfor the wider issues of public health, his stand againstparochialism, and his never-failing personal courtesy andkindness.

AppointmentsBUTLER, N. G. P., M.B. Lond. : ansesthetio officer, Stoke Mandeville

Hospital, Bucks.CuEFFiNs, E. M., M.B. Lond. : asst. chest physician, Cambridge

Chest Clinic.CLEMINSON, K. L., M.B. Lond. : orthopaedic registrar, Peterborough

and District Memorial Hospital.DBENNAN, V. K., M.B., M.CH. (ORTH.) Lpool, F.B.C.8.E. : consultant

orthopaedic and traumatic surgeon, Clwyd and Deeside HospitalManagement Committee.

EDMUNDS, P. K. D., M.R.c.s., D.M.R.D. : radiologist (S.H.M.O. grade),Merthyr and Aberdare Hospital Management Committee.

FLETCHJm, P. F., M.B. Glasg., D.P.M.: psychiatrist, Stanley RoydHospital, Wakefield.

HOPKIN, D. A. B., M.D.Lond., D.T.M. & H., D.A.: consultantaneesthetist, Lambeth group of hospitals.

LIDGATE, M. M., M.B. Birm. : psychiatrist, Menston Mental Hospital,near Leeds.

MCCAULEY, PETER, M.B. N.U.I., D.P.M.: asst. psychiatrist, St. Audry’sMental Hospital, Suffolk.

SIMONS, E. L., M.B. Camb. : asst. clinical pathologist, KingstonGeneral Hospital and Western General Hospital, Hull.

WATSON, KATHLEEN, M.B. Lond., D.A.: consultant anæsthetist,Huddersfield and Storthes Hall Hospital Management Com-mittee groups.

WILSON, -PETER, F.R.C.S.E., D.O.M.S.: consultant in ’ophthalmology,hospitals in Leeds A group.

WISHART, JAMES, M.B. Glasg., F.R.F.P.s., F.R.C.S.E.: consultant in, orthopaedic surgery, hospitals in Bradford, Wakefield, and

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Ilkley and Otley Hospitals Management Committee groups.