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McGavin, Kt., C.M.G., D.5.0., M.D., F.R.C.S., Member of Board of Health ; Professor F. H. Smirk, M.D., M.R.C.P., representing Royal Australasian College of Physicians; The Director-General of Health, Member of Board of Health, Chairman {ex officio). Nutrition Research Committee. —Professor John Malcolm (Chairman), Professor 0. E. Hercus, Professor Elizabeth Gregory, Sir Theodore Rigg, Dr. Muriel Bell. " Summary of Final Report on the Incidence of Rickets in New Zealand Children " (Malcolm). " The Present State of the Science of Nutrition, with Particular Reference to the Special Problems of the Empire, including the Nutritional Status of the Indigenous Peoples of the Colonies." Paper by Dr. Muriel Bell to the Royal Empire Conference, London, 1946. " Hypervitaminosis A : Induced by New Zealand Fish Liver Oils " (Moore). " Serum Phosphatase Levels in Hypervitaminosis A " (Weeber and Moore). " Vitamin D Estimations, 1945-46 " (Weeber). " Further Interim Report on a Rickets Survey " (Weeber and Deem). " Note on the Keeping-power of the Buffer Substrate Solution used in the Determination of Serum Phosphates by the King-Armstrong Method " (Weeber). " Vitamin C Determination in Rose-hip Syrup and Rose-hip Jelly Crystals" (Weeber). " Interim Report on the Estimation of Fluorine " (Harrison). " Estimation of Riboflavin " (Clemow). " Thiamine Determination of New Zealand Fish " (Macfarlane). Thyroid Research Committee. —Professor C. E. Hercus (Chairman), Professor J. Malcolm, Dr. N. L. Edson, Dr. J. A. D. Iverach. Continuation of study of the goitrogenic activity of derivatives of thiourea and related compounds. Hydatid Research Committee. —Sir Louis Barnett (Chairman), Dr. C. S. M. Hopkirk, Dr. T. R. Ritchie. " Testing ' Caprokol' Hydrobromide as an Anthelmintic for Hydatid Worms in Dogs " (Batham). " Testing Arecoline Hydrobromide as an Anthelminthic for Hydatid Worms in Dogs " (Batham). Tuberculosis Research Committee. —Dr. T. W. J. Johnson (Chairman), Dr. Chisholm McDowell, Dr. W. Gilmour, Dr. H. B. Turbott, Dr. C. A. Taylor. Tuberculosis Research at Auckland Hospital (Gilmour). Clinical Medicine Research Committee. —Professor F. H. Smirk (Chairman), Dr. M. McGeorge, Dr. N. L. Edson. Publications—- " Renal Function and Prognosis in Benign Hypertension " (Murray McGeorge) Quarterly Journal of Medicine, sth July, 1945. " Effect of the Initial Level of the Blood-pressure upon the Response of the Human Subject to Blood-pressure raising Reflexes " (Bruce Martin and Smirk). Journal of Physiology, 1945, Vol. 103, No. 4. " Spread of Infective Hepatitis " (R. Kirk). The Lancet, Jan. 20, 1945. " Control of Gastric Hyperacidity by Radium " (Murray McGeorge). Proceedings Royal Australasian College of Physicians in Christchurch, February, 1945. " Ventricular Rhythm " (Smirk). Proceedings of a meeting of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in Christchurch, February, 1945.

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