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Guild of Hospital LibrariansA conference on the Hospital Librarian in the Children’s

Ward is to be held at Chaucer House, Malet Place, W.C.1,on Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 2.30 P.M.

Victor Horsley LectureOn Thursday, Dec. 8, at 5 P.M., at University College

Hospital Medical School, London, W.C.l, Sir Hugh Cairnswill deliver the Victor Horsley lecture. He is to speak onDisturbances of Consciousness with Disorders of the BrainStem.

The Scientific Film Association

A symposium on Problems in Making Psychological Filmswill be held at the Wellcome Foundation Institute, 183,Euston Road, London, N.W.1, on Wednesday, Nov. 16,at 7 P.M. Tickets may be had from the association at 4, GreatRussell Street, W.C.I.

National Association for Mental HealthAn inter-clinic conference will be held on Saturday, Dec. 3,

at Queen Mary Hall, Y.W.C.A. Central Club, Great, RussellStreet, London, W.C.1, for the professional staff of child-guidance teams. Applications should be sent to the con-ference secretary, at 39, Queen Anne Street, W.I.

Exhibition of Medical PhotographyMembers of the medical group of the Royal Photographic

Society are holding an exhibition in the faculty room of theBristol Royal Infirmary from Oct. 31 to Nov. 12, from 10 A.M.to 5 P.::’!. (Saturdays 10 A.M. to 1 P.M.). This exhibition wasshown in July in London (see Lancet, July 9, p. 65).

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South-East Metropolitan Regional Tuberculosis

SocietyA meeting of this society will be held at Grove Park Hospital,

Marvels Lane, Lee, S.E.12, on Saturday, Nov. 12, at 10.30A.M., when papers will be read by Dr. M. M. Nagley, Dr.Geoffrey Beven, and Mr. Alistair Gunn. There will also be ademonstration of mass miniature-radiography films.

Manchester Royal Infirmary Old Residents’ ClubIt is proposed to hold the 10th reunion dinner of this

club on March 25 at Belle Vue, Manchester. Members willbe sent further details early in December, and any formerresident whose name may have been overlooked on a previousoccasion is asked to write to the honorary secretary, Dr.0. Janus, at the Infirmary.Diets for Patients with Steatorrhœa

- The Ministry of Food announces that patients sufferingfrom acute or convalescent steatorrheea (including coeliacdisease and tropical sprue) who are entitled to half-creamNational Dried Milk may, if they wish, take half-cream

proprietary infant milk food instead. The maximum allowanceremains at one tin a week.

University College HospitalThe annual meeting of the hospital will be held at 5.30 P.M.

on Tuesday, Nov. 1, in the medical school, University Street,London, W.C.1, when Major-General Sir Harold Wernher,the chairman of the board of governors, will present theannual report of the activities of the hospital includingSt. Paneras Hospital and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases.Members of the public are invited to attend.

Royal Microscopical SocietyOn Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 6 P.M., at a meeting of the

biological section, Dr. G. A. Harrison, and Mr. M. G. L. Curties,F.R.M.S., will speak on Inexpensive Phase Microscopy. OnWednesday, Nov. 16, at 5.30 P.M., Dr. G. M. Findlay andMr. F. C. Grigg, F.R.M.S., will address the society on Cytologyof the Neurone in Experimental Poliomyelitis. Both meetingswill take place at B.M.A. House, Tavistock Square, London,W.C.I.

Postgraduate Travelling FellowshipsThe British Postgraduate Medical Federation (University

of London) is offering a limited number of these fellowships,tenable for one year, to registered medical practitioners whoare at present holding an appointment or are engaged inpostgraduate study at one of the undergraduate or postgraduateteaching hospitals or medical schools of the University ofLondon. Further information will be found in our advertise-ment columns.

Society of Medical Officers of HealthThe annual dinner of this society will be held at the

Piccadilly Hotel, London, W.1, on Thursday, Nov. 24, at7.30 P.M.

AppointmentsMITCHELL, J. B., M.D. Lond : asst. chest physician (senior registrar),

Cambridge area.MURRAY, R. S., M.D. Belf., F.R.C.S.I., D.M.R. : asst. radiologist,

London Hospital.PRICE, D. E., M.B. Lond. : consultant pathologist in charge, Barnsley

group of hospitals.SUTTON, P. H., M.D., B.SC. Lond., M.R.c.p. : asst. chest physician

(senior registrar), East Norfolk area.

Colonial Service:

CHEVERTON, R. L., M.R.c.s. : director of medical services, GoldCoast.

MADGF, E. H., M.B. Lond. : medical superintendent, VictoriaHospital, Mauritius.

NUNN, J. F., M.B. Birm. : M.o., Federation of Malaya.ROZALLA, M. A., M.B. Calcutta : M.O., Sarawak.ToNEiNG, H. D., m.R.c.s. : pathologist, Nigeria.WALico, Z. S., M.D. Beirut: asst. M.o., St. Lucia, Windward

Islands.

Diary of the Week

OCT. 30 TO NOV. 5Tuesday, lstINSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY, 330, Gray’s Inn Road,

W.C.12.15 P.M. Mr. E. H. R. Harries : Respiratory Tract in Infectious

Diseases.INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, Lisle Street, W.C.2

5 P.M. Dr. W. J. O’Donovan : Arsenic and the Skin.

Wednesday, 2ndROYAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HYGIENE, 28, Portland

Place, W.1- 3.30 P.M. Dr. A. G. G. Thompson : Preparation of Food for

Human Consumption.

Thursday, 3rdUNIVERSITY OF LONDON

5 P.M. (1, Wimpole Street, W.1.) Mr. A. J. Wright: TonsillarFunction. (Semon lecture.)

ROYAL MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION2.15 P.M. (1, Wimpole Street, W.1.) Mr. G. Grey Walter,

SC.D. : Function of Electrical Rhythms in the Brain.(Maudsley lecture.)

INSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY2.15 P.M. Mr. 1. Simson Hall: Surgical Treatment of Oto-

sclerosis.INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY

5 P.M. Dr. B. Russell: Nutritional Disorders of the Skin.ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, S.W.1

4.30 P.M. Dr. Anthony Feiling : Neurology lecture-demonstra-tion.

WELSH NATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE8 P.M. (Institute of Engineers, Park Place, Cardiff.) Sir Gordon

Gordon-Taylor : Surgery of the Innominate Artery.(Sheen lecture.)

HONYMAN GILLESPIE LECTURE5 P.M. (University New Buildings, Teviot Place, Edinburgh.)

Dr. R. M. Stewart: G.P.I.—its Juvenile and Senile Types.

Friday, 4thROYAL COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNÆCOLOGISTS, 58, Queen

Anne Street, W.1NOON. Mr. Leslie Williams : Postoperative Venous Thrombosis.3 P.M. Prof. J. F. Cunningham Secondary Abdominal Preg-

nancy.5 P.M. Mr. John Howkins : Mayo’s Vaginal Hysterectomy in the

Treatment of Prolapse.MAIDA VALE HOSPITAL FOR NERVOUS DISEASES MEDICAL SCHOOL,

W.9. ’

5 P.M. Dr. W. Russell Brain : Clinical demonstration.

Saturday, 5thROYAL COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNÆCOLOGISTS

9.45 A.M. Dr. G. M. Bull : Treatment of Anuria.11.30 A.M. Mr. D. H. MacLeod : Endometriosis.

INSTITUTE OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNÆCOLOGY11 A.M. (Postgraduate Medical School of London, Ducane Road,

W.12.) Dr. A. M. Ramsay : Puerperal Infections.INSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY

11.15 A.M. Mr. Henry Foster : Examination and Treatment ofChildren, particularly those of School Age.

YORK MEDICAL SOCIETY, 17, Stonegate, York8.30 P.M. Dr. H. W. Barber : Diseases of the Skin of Interest to

General Practitioners.