Calendar: 1951-1952 Page 391

ANNUAL REPORT XXXV Dr Mackinnon delivered short course of lectures in Anatomy to the Physiotherapy students at King's College Hospital and addressed the Annual Convention of the Society of Chiropodists on The Role of the Nervous System in the Life of the Lower Limb DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHARMACOLOGY Number of Students 258 28 82 Sc Special Ph Total 379 Results of Examinations Candidates Passed 2nd 136 130 26 22 86 72 Sc Special Higher Degrees Ph Science-Physiology Miss Jacqueline Falconer The Development of General Method of Enzyme Purification and its application to the Isolation of the Esterases found in Liver and Kidney Ph Science-Biochemistry Heathcote Re-examina- tion of the Basic Fraction of Protein Hydrolysates Departmental Notes The great increase in the number of dental students proved an embarrassment which was accentuated by the proportionally greater increase in students who require more instruction than those for the This difficulty was ameliorated by the appointment of full-time teacher for dental students In February meeting of the Physiological Society of Great Britain was held in the department Some three hundred persons attended In October meeting of the Biochemical Society was held Dr Quilliam returned from his year's leave of absence With the aid of British Postgraduate Medical Federation University of London Travelling Fellowship he had spent one year working in the Neurophysiological Laboratories of the Johns Hopkins Hospital lst Class Hons 2nd Class Hons