BEIT FELLOWSHIP.

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BEIT FELLOWSHIP.

MR. C. S. HICKS'S RECORD.

The report of the trustee! of the Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research contains the following particulars of "the record and research proposals' of Mr. • C; S. Hicks', a Nevv:*ssealander to whom a junior Fellowship has been awarded— : : ••• -• Record:— Otago University, New Zealand;' B'.Sc, • June, 1914. Exam, held November, 1913, papers sent England. M.Sc. /with Ist Class Hons. Org. Chemistry, June, 1915. Exam, held November, 1914, as above. ■A.I.G. by Exam. Ist May, 1918 (on military leave). F.I.C. 28th July, 1922. M.8., Ch.B. (N.Z.) December, 1922, Ist Class Honours in Organic Chemistry. Dominion Research Scholar. Original Contributions to Science, Medicine, and Research.—The Dissociation Constants of some higher members of th« a-Oximino Fatty Acids, 1914. "Trans.: Chem. Soe.," Vol. 113, 1918. Fireproof-; ing and Antiseptic Treatment of N?Z:! Timbers, "N.Z. Jour. Sci. and Technology," July, 1918. Manufacture of Chlo- 1 , ramine-T. (with J.-.K.' H. Inglis), "Jour; Soc. Chem. Industry," September. 1918,' Volume XXXVII., 288 T. Present Occupation, etc.—From November, 1916, to November, 1918, engaged on the Manufacture of Chloramine-T for N.Z; Forces, retained from hospital ship duty for the purpose. November, 1918,1 onwards, Public Analyst for Otago andi Southland Provinces. January, 1925, appointed Chemical Pathologist and Assist-' t ant General Pathologist, Otago Medical School.

Proposed Research.—(») Investigation of the Causation of Goitre from a Biochemical standpoint, such as a close examination of the relationship of lodine in foods to the incidence of Goitre,. and if possible, to work out the metabolism of lodine, (b) The chemistry of substituents in the Thyroxin molecule, and the pharmacology of same, as a preliminary to working out more definitely the reason for the physiological action of Tyroxin. Place of Research: Balfour Laboratory, Cambridge. .