Calendar: 1971-1972 Page 441

lxvi Annual Report of the Delegacy muscle was found to differ according to location and function Mrs Al Jubouri Mr Heazell concluded his research into receptor populations in stomach muscle department of physiology Number of Students 246 49 Departmental Notes The recommendations in the Todd Report on Medical Education are proving disturbing to members of the Staff and to medically qualified applicants for temporary or permanent posts in pre-clinical depart- ments There has been decrease in the number of medically qualified applicants for vacant posts in Physiology departments probably because it is much to newly-qualified doctor's advantage to continue steadfastly in his attempt to gain specialist clinical qualifications and specialist status rather than to engage in period of training for re- search before the far more rigorous post-graduate training suggested by Todd is brought into operation Another preoccupation is the possible association between King's College and St Thomas's and the entirely new type of pre-clinical study which this will entail Courses are being designed not only to provide basic information on which students can build their knowledge but also reasonable choice of courses Dr Taylor and his research group worked on the cortical repre- sentation of vestibular function in the cat and on the physiology of fatigue of voluntary muscle in man Dr Band and his group continued their work on the carotid body chemoreceptor and its function in regulating respiration from breath to breath This group is working closely with Professor Semple of the Medical Unit at St Thomas's Hospital and this association has widened the scope of the work Dr Venetia France investigated the factors governing the passage of certain ions through frog skin and Dr Phillips studied the effect of gas tensions on the flow of blood through pores of capillary size During the year Professor Troisfontaines Professor of Theology and Psychology and Dean of the Medical Faculty at Namur delivered Halliburton Lecture on 'The Mystery of Death