THE opening meeting of the Ulster Medical Society for session 1937-8 was held in the Whitla Medical Institute on 28th October, 1937. I he out-going president, Professor P. 1. Crymble, installed the president for the incoming session, Professor W. W. D. Thomson, who, before delivering his address on "The Life and Times of Hans Sloanie" (published elsewhere in this number of the Journal), referre...