The British Association. Section D. Zoology

Zoology: H. Boschma the Nature of the Association between Anthozoa

The British Medical Association

Oxford on the 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th of July. The attraction of this famous and picturesque seat of learning, combined with the active preparations which are being made to give its members a heart}' welcome, will ensure for the Association a very successful gathering. No mistake has been made on this occasion regarding the tropical section which has already issued a programme of its proceedi...

SECTION OF MEDICAL HISTORY IN THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (Victorian Branch).

THIs flourishing society, which was founded in 1948, is closely associated with the Medical School Library. In the course of the reorganization of the Library which took place after the war it was discovered that the collection contained a number of the classics of medicine. Interest thus awakened was fostered by the Librarian, Mrs. Lilian Sargeant, and by Professor Arnold Sorsby, who is at the...

The British Hospitals Association Conference

had about three years ago with Dr. Addison, the then Minister of Health, when he found himself in a minority of one. Every other speaker advocated the complete or partial placing of the hospitals on the rates. He had the courage to assert that if hospital authorities could tide over the next three or four years, the voluntary system would re-assert itself and they could trust to the generous pu...

Zoology: The Walking Heads

An analysis of Hox genes reveals that the body of the adorably weird tardigrades is essentially a truncated front end. This illustrates that loss and simplification are a hallmark of the evolution of animal body plans.