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Annual Report of the Delegacy xcv the evolutionary history of the race is well recognised Dr Venetia France by demonstrating active transport of sodium ions across both the bladder and the skin of the sheep foetus has extended the idea to 'recapitulation of function' Some of the results were communicated to the Physiological Society at University College in March She also attended the European Colloquium on Renal Physiology held near Paris on May 16th-18th and delivered com- munication on 'Sodium and water transport in the urinary bladder of the developing foetal sheep' Dr Robins continues to take an active interest in the rate of adaptation of mammals to changing environments and in circadian rhythms Studies have been undertaken together with Pam Mantell Mr Shore and Mr Griffiths He has received visit from Professor Chiba of the School of Dental Medicine Tsurumi University Yokohama This has resulted in the initiation of collaborative work on the mechanism and rate of tooth eruption Dr Begley has initiated studies on the transport of immunoglo- bulins across the proximal intestine of young rats and has been awarded substantial grant by the Medical Research Council to further the work Techniques have been developed for observing the transport both in vitro and with the aid of the electron microscope The size of the guinea-pig placenta in relation to the weight of the foetus it supplies indicates very high efficiency Mr Bailey working with Dr Bradbury and Dr France has provided strong physiological evi- dence that it can function as near perfect counter-current exchanger This too has been communicated to the Physiological Society Dr Yudilevich late of the University of Santiago Chile and recently appointed to the Chair of Physiology at Queen Elizabeth College has been frequent visitor to the Department He has been applying his indicator diffusion technique together with his method for computer-analysis of the results to measurements of the perme- ability of foetal capillaries in the placenta The appointment of Dr Peter Baker of the Physiological Laboratory University of Cambridge to the Halliburton Chair of Physiology has recently been announced He has been responsible for work of distinc- tion on electrical and ion transport phenomena in the giant axon of the squid More recently he has been concerned with the fundamental mechanism of transmitter release from nerve He is Secretary of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Physiology We welcome him to the Department