CHAIR OF BACTERIOLOGY

Evening Star, Issue 17925, 22 March 1922, Page 3

CHAIR OF BACTERIOLOGY

DR PETER M'CALLUM APPOINTED IN SUCCESSION TO DR CHAMPTALOUP. One of tho principal subjects before the Otago University Council yesterday afternoon was the appointing of a successor to Dr Champtalonp (who died last December) as professor of bacteriology and public health. Four applications were placed before the council as duly in order. In addition, it was.stated that a cablegram (not addressed to the registrar) had been received from a doctor ‘in tho Old Country, this cable gram intimating that ho was applying and bad posted a letter. Dr Lindo Ferguson said that the letter _ referred _to would probably be in last night’s mail. Tt was decided that the application not being to hand, and the council having no official cognisance of it, it, could not be considered. The council then went into committee to deal with tho four applications received.

After lengthy consideration the council appointed Dr Peter MacCallum, assistant clinical pathologist at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. The new professor, who is 36 ycars_ of age. is a New Zealander, being a Christchurch boy. educated at Christ’s College and Canterbury College, where ho pradu- j ated M.Sc. in 1908 and M.A. in 1909, in which year he was chosen as tho Canterbury candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship. He is a married man, his wife being formerly Miss B. D. Cross. M.A.. the first lady D.Sc, of the New Zealand University. At Christ’s College Dr MacCallum was i a very successful student, winning an cn- , trance scholarship and two Somes scholar- i shins. He entered Canterbury College in 1904 with a Gamack Scholarship, won an exhibition in biology, and graduated M.Sc. with second class honors in zoology, tak- i ing his M.A. degree the following year. I From 1910 to 1914 he attended the Edinburgh University. Here he was Vons Dunlop Scholar in physiology, and during his course he won fourteen class medals, including first place in his year in patho-1 logv, under Professor Greenfield. Ho too'; i a special course of bacteriology under Dr W. E. Carnegie Dickson, and later acted as student-demonstrator in bacteriology under Professor James Ritchie. He was house physician in the skins department : of the 'Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, under ; Dr Norman Walker. In 1914 he gradn- ! ated M. 8.. 0h.8., with first classhonors. | won the Buchanan Scholarship in mid- ‘ wifery and gynaecology, and the Beancy Prize* in anatomy, surgery, and clinical surgery. He was house phvsician m the • gynaecological wards of the Edinburgh j Royal Infirmary for six months, under Dr H.‘ Freeland Barbour. He served _in tho war for four years and a-half with the R.A.M.C. . After the war be became assistant pathologist at iac Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, and since October, 192(1, has been working under Dr W. B. Logan. M.D., F.R.C.P.. gaining necessarily a large experience of bacteriological and serological work. _ . I Dr Bonham has given notice to rescind | the motion appointing Dr MacCallum. ' This will he considered at a. special meeting of the council to bo held at an early date. Th other applicants ate Dr Burton Bradley, Dr C. E. Herons, and Dr King Pat- j rick.