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Award of diploma At a meeting held on i I th March the Executive Committee of the College, with the authority of the Council, granted a diploma of Fellowship to A K 1L Addison.

MRCPath examination regulations Fellows of the surgical Colleges in Great Britain anid Ireland will be exempted, under the new regulations for the MRCPath, from the Primary MRCPath examinations. In addition the new regulations provide that two years' clinical work after admission to the British Medical Register (or equivalent) will count as one year towards the training for the Final MRCPath examination. Further details may be obtained from the Registrar of the Royal College of Pathologists.

Mackenzie Mackinnon Streatfeild Research Fellowship Applications are invited for a fellowship in medical or surgical research, available not earlier than ist September I976 and tenable up to three years, subject to annual reappointment, at £4000 a year. Research may be conducted at any centre approved by the appointing committee and may be part-time; a proportion of the award may be used for research expenses at the discretion of the holder's supervisor. Applicants must hold a medical qualification reigistrable in Great Britain or Ireland or a university

(legree (nlot necessarily in medicine) and must apply through the Dean of a medical school. Further details on the mode of application may be obtained from MIiss H G Child, Principal Administrative Assistant, Royal College of Surgeons, 35/43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PN, by whom applications must be received not later than 3oth June I976.

Jacksonian Prize The Council invite the submission of dissertations for the 1976 award of the Jacksonian Prize, which consists of the sum of £52.50 and a bronze medal. The Prize is open to Fellows and Members of the College, Fellows in Dental Surgery, and Fellows in the Faculty of Anaesthetists. Dissertations must be related to a practical subject in surgery. Intending candidates are strongly advised to obtain the full regulations from the Secretary of the College, who must be notified of the subject proposed not less than six calendar months before the closing date for receipt of dissertations, which is 3Ist December 1976.

Deaths of Fellows, 1975 In addition to those listed in the January and March issues the following Fellows are known to have died during 19 75: COCKER, James Percy FDSRCS FRIEND, Lewis Anthony FDSRCS HORN, Joshua Samuel FRCS NORRISH, Reginald Eric TD FRCS READER, Norbert Leo Maxwell FRCS

IN MEMORIAM Arthur Dickson Wright MS FRCS Hon. FRCSI DTM&H

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Mr Arthur Dickson Wright, surgeon to St Mary's Hospital and former Vice-President of the Royal College of Surgeons, died in St Mary's Hospital on the 6th January I976. He was a surgeon outstanding in the golden years of surgery when the discovery of antibiotics and other wide clinical advances offered such great opportunities to men of sufficient calibre to meet them. He was born in Dublin on 5th May I897, the son of Dr Edward Wright, who later practised in Maida Vale. After service in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War he graduated at St Mary's in 1922 and, after his house appointmcnts, went to Malaya, where he became Professor of Surgery in Singapore at the age of 26. When he returned to St Mary's in 1930 as Assistant to the Surgical Unit he was at once recognizedl by staff and students as a brilliant surgeoin to whom disease in every region of the body offered a challenge. In the days before the disciplines of surgery became so compartmented his mastery embraced surgery of the central nervous system, endocrinology, and thoracic, vascular, gastrointestinal, urological, and orthopaedic diseases, and he continued to work in all these fields throughout his active life. Inevitably the burden of his work became immenise and his capacity and stamina in coping with it legendary.

College news He wsas always an outstandiing teacher, not necessarily in the conventional style of classifications but with an inexhaustible fund of anecdotes, delivered in his clipped, somewhat sardonic manner, which held attention whenever he spoke, and his teaching ability was thus appreciated more by advanced students thani by undergraduates. Against this background of the profound respect which his professional ability engendered emerges the other side of his character, his deep humanity and the warmth of his regard for all aspects of the student lifc of the hospital-sporting, musical, social, and educational, all of which flourished in his interest. Especially well remembered among those privileged to know him was his deep distress at the death of some fine St Mary's menl in the Second World War, and he spoke of them often in later years. He came thus to be regarded with affection by staff and students as the ultimate opinion in any obscure clinical con(lition and one without whom no gathering, social or clinical, was complete, and each occasion was enlivened by his wit and ability to extract humour from any situation. His other great interest was the Royal College of Surgeons, which he served on the Council, for i 6 years, and as Vice-President. He was a member of the Court of Examiners and also College represen-

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tative on the Joint Consultants Committee. His wide circle of friends, eminent in many spheres of lifc, including the stage and the world of music and horse racing, enabled him to promote the welfare of the College among willing benefactors, and his unremitting work as Treasurer to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund was of immense value to that body. He was at one time President of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. One cannot mourn his passing. He was never a man to be assayed sentimentally. He was known to evcry surgeon of his day as a colleague who achieved the heights of his profession with masterful pre-emineince in every aspect of its intricate and fascinating texture. The mention of his name immediately spread a gleam of amusement in any company of those who knew him in anticipation of some anecdote of wit or repartee, and so he will be remembered, a master craftsman with an intellect ranging into every aspect of surgery, and always exhibiting some new facet of it, a wit sometimes razor-edged and devastating, and a sense of humour which so often turned a humdrum meeting into an occasion to be remembered with relish. His place is assuredly among the great general surgeons of his day. NEVILLE STIDOLIPH

FELLOWSHIP IN DENTAL SURGERY OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND New form of Final examination Fellowship training programme suggested in The first examination for the Fellowship in the Second Report of the Joint Committee for Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Sur- Higher Training in Dentistry. It was agreed geons of England was held in I948 and since that the principal function of the Final FDS that time more than I 000 candidates have examination is to test in those who aspire to achieved the distinction of Fellowship bv ex- senior professional status a substantial postamination. There is no doubt that this exam- graduate knowledge of dental subjects and an ination has been a substantial stimulus to im- understanding of those aspects of general surproved standards of postgraduate education gery, medicine, and therapeutics which form and practice, both nationally and internation- the basis for satisfactory clinical practice. The new examination will increase the ally. The format of the examination has remained time devoted to the clinical examination of mtuch the same over its 28 years of life. Atti- patients and will recognize the increasing reltudes to dental postgraduate education have evance of medicine and therapeutics to the evolved to the extent that the Faculty of the practice of dentistry. By careful structuring of College felt that a review of the objectives and the parts of the examination a knowledge of style of the examination should be undertaken. all dental subjects, including orthodontics, may The Board of Faculty, at its meeting on be tested. It is thus hoped that by further o20th February 1976, agreed that the proposals reducing the element of chance a more satisof its working party for the restructuring of factory examination will result. the Final Fellowship examination should be The subjects of the examination are divided adopted and that a new form of examination into two groups: Group I - Medicine should be held for the first time in January 1978. It was reaffirmed that the Final FDS should not be regarded as a specialist examination but would complement the 3-4-year general pre-

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Aurthur Dickson Wright MS FRCS Hon. FRCSI DTM&H.

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