CHARLES L. DANA '72 RECEIVES HONORS IN BRITAIN

During the summer Dr. Charles L. Dana '72 was the recipient of unusual honors in England and Scotland. He was designated to give the Hughlings-Jackson lecture before the British Medical Association. This is an address given every two or three years by important persons invited from Great Britain, France, Germany and elsewhere. The lecture is semi-popular, scientific, and medical and Dr. Dana was the first American ever invited to give it since the lectureship was established about twenty-five years ago.

Later, in connection with the meeting in Edinburgh of the British Medical Association, a special graduation ceremony was held by the University at which the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon a number of distinguished medical men. The Earl of Balfour, Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, presided and conferred the degrees. Among those on the platform with the Chancellor were Lord Provost Alexander Stevenson, Vice-Chancellor Sir Alfred Ewing, Sir Robert Philip, president; Sir Robert Bolam, chairman of Council; Dr. C. O. Hawthorne, chairman of the representative body, and other representatives of the British Medical Association. In presenting the recipients of honorary degrees to the Chancellor, Professor James Mackintosh, K. C., Dean of the Faculty of Law, said:

"At a similar gathering to this on the occasion of the last visit of the British Medical Association to this city twentynine years ago, my predecessor in office remarked that the list of honorary medical graduands presented by him would establish a record for length and for cosmopolitan character. At our meeting today we shall certainly equal that record as regards the number and the representative standing of those who are about to receive the University's highest honor, and I venture to make the further claim that the standard of scientific achievement and professional eminence which they have attained has not been surpassed on any previous occasion."

Dr. Dana was presented as follows: Charles L. Dana, M. A., M. D., LI. D., Professor of Nervous Diseases in the University of Cornell, U. S. A.

"Professor Dana is a neurologist of international celebrity, highly esteemed for his authoritative treatise upon nervous diseases, which has passed through many editions, and for many valuable scientific papers. He has also enriched the annals of medicine by a charming book entitled "Peaks of Medical History," which inspires the hope that he will one day use the materials he has collected to tell the story of the old Scots worthies who made the name of Edinburgh as a medical centre. Dr. Dana is the sixth in succession of a brilliant galaxy of talent to hold the Hughlings-Jackson Lectureship—the blue ribbon of British neurology. We gladly add our laurel to the many bouquets of which Professor Dana has been the recipient."

The others receiving the degrees at the same time were: Vittorio Ascoli, M. D., Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Rome.

Harvey Cushing, Professor of Surgery, Harvard University.

Lord Dawson of Penn, G. C. V. 0., K. C. 8., Physician in Ordinary to His Majesty the King.

Archibald Donald, M. A., M. D., Ch. M., F. R. C. P., Emeritus Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Manchester.

Knud Faber, M. D., Professor of Medicine, University of Copenhagen. Sir William Hale-White, K. B. E., M. D., F. R. C. P.

Jan Ven Der Hoeve, M. D., Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Leyden.

Robert George Hogarth, C. B. E., F. R. C. S. E., Nottingham, ex-President of the British Medical Association.

Colonel William Hunter, C. 8., M. D., F. R. C. P., Consulting Physician to the Eastern Command and to Charing Cross Hospital, London.

Otto Meyerhof, Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute of Biology, Berlin.

Thomas Hugh Milroy, M. D., Professor of Physiology, Queen's University, Belfast.

Sir Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, Bart., K. C. M. G., F. R. C. S. E., President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Sir John Herbert Parsons, K. B. E., C. 8., F. R. C. S., Ophthalmic Surgeon, University College Hospital, London.

Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston, Bart, K. C. 8., M. A., M. D., Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge.

George Frederic Still, M. A., M. D., F. R. C. P., Professor of Diseases of Children, King's College, London.

William Sydney Thayer, M. D., Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, U. S. A.

Wilfred Trotter, F. R. C. S.

Theodore Martin Tuffier, Academy of Medicine, Paris.

Sir Almroth Edward Wright, K. B. E., C. 8., F. R. S., M.D., Professor of Experimental Pathology, University of London.

Otto Naegeli, Professor of Medicine, University of Zurich. (In absentia.)