Calendar: 1957-1958 Page 428

xlii ANNUAL REPORT Results of Examinations For Medical and Dental see under Department of Anatomy Sc Special 1st Class Honours 2nd Class Honours Upper Division 2nd Class Honours Lower Division Higher Degrees Ph Miss Hughes Sodium and potassium exchanges in muscle י' Ph Dr Soliman The action of ions on smooth muscle Departmental Notes The Halliburton Lectures were given by Professor Ν Long of Yale University and by Dr Stephen Kuffler of Johns Hopkins University see Section Both lectured to large audiences and after- wards were entertained to dinner in the College During the Christmas vacation Professor McDowall lectured in the Universities of Berne and Basle and during the Easter vacation in the Sorbonne Paris He acted as external examiner at the Uni- versity of St Andrews and at University College Ibadan which he visited in February He was invited also to make special contribution to the European Congress of Allergy to be held in Florence in September 1956 In the Easter term Dr Brownlee was invited by the Anglo-French Cultural Commission to deliver three lectures in French at the Uni- versity of Angers the University of Rennes and the University College of Tours on Host resistance to infection During the year Dr Lowton of the Woolwich Group of Hospitals and Mr Aa Thiel Neilsen of the University of Copenhagen worked in the Pharmacology laboratory main topic of research has been the fundamental action of ions on cardiac muscle Dr Speirs and smooth muscle Dr St Buxton who worked on ionic changes in the blood was assisted by grant from the Asthma Research Council Dr Jones continued research in vasomotor activity and the control of the heart Dr Widdas who came to the department from St Mary's Hospital Medical School has been investigating the permeability of red cells to hexose and for this purpose he brought with him number of new pieces of appara- tus he has also greatly add£d to the apparatus for the teaching of Special Honours students He has been assisted in his researches by Miss Bowyer who had personal grant from the Medical Research Council In the Pharmacology laboratory the research interest continues in the field of autonomic drugs Mr Wilson's study of the inhibition of smooth muscle by sympathomimetic amines has been facilitated by his designing and building apparatus for repeating standard operation in