Calendar: 1925-1926 Page 431

ANNUAL REPORT xxvi'i of the facilities offered by the Department for practical work during the vacations increases year by year The work of the teaching staff has consequently been very strenuous and the loss of Mr Townley Clarkson who resigned at the end of last session was severely felt The Department suffered another loss at the close of the present session Mr Mortimer Woolf who has been on the Anatomy Staff for ten years was compelled by the pressure of surgical work to resign his appointment as Demonstrator His departure will be greatly regretted both by his colleagues and by the students The examination results have maintained the high average of recent years In the recent Second Examination 70 per cent of the candidates from King's College satisfied the Examiners in Anatomy The Department in common with other Departments of the Faculty was inspected by University Board of Inspectors during the Lent Term Important researches have been made and are being continued by members of the staff During the academic year the Professor was engaged with committee of London Anatomists in thorough revision of Buchanan's Text-book of Anatomy Professor Barclay-Smith was appointed as representative of the Senate of the University of London on the Committee of Management and the Medical School Committee of King's College Hospital Mr Cecil Wakeley will join the staff of the Depart- ment at the commencement of next session Mr Wakeley holds the appointments of Junior Surgeon Teacher of Clinical Surgery and Surgical Tutor to King's College Hospital Consulting Surgeon to the Maudsley Hospital and Arris and Gale Lecturer of the Royal College of Surgeons 1923-1924 Mr Wakeley has an established reputation as teacher and will prove an invaluable addition to the staff Department of Physiology -During the session 1923-24 there were few changes in the general arrangements of the Department but as was emphasised in the previous Report the Department continued to be extremely congested This appears likely to continue in view of the increasing importance of biochemistry special degree in which is now under consideration by the University For the first time student of the College has taken during the session biochemistry as subsidiary subject for his Honours degree An advanced practical course on "Foods" was also given by Dr Hewitt in connection with the Inter-collegiate course for the Honours Sc degree special course of lectures in physiology was instituted for dental students as it was found that such students could not readily follow lectures intended for students of medicine The appreciation of this class was at once shown by the influx of men dental students to the College and there is every prospect of this being continued During the Michaelmas Term series of Public Lectures on Food were delivered by Dr Hewitt and aroused considerable interest Dr Da Fano continued as last year his lectures on the Histology of the