PHARMACOLOGY AND NERVE ENDINGS
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The chair was taken by Professor J. H. BURN, president of the Section of Therapeutics and Pharmacology, and proceedings were opened by Dr. ROBERT HUTCHISON, President of the Society, who expressed the pleasure with which the Society had accepted from the organizing mittee the trusteeship of the sum collected to endow lecture. Professor Dixon was highly esteemed in Society, and they felt that his splendid scientific deserved commemoration. Sir WILLIAM WILLCOX, chairman of the organizing committee, said that Professor Dixon, who passed away August 16th, 1931, was one of the most distinguished pharmacologists of the day. In addition to his scientific qualities, he was extraordinarily human. speaker had heard Cambridge undergraduates declare they would rather go to a lecture by Dixon than musical comedy, but the lectures imparted scientific material of the highest kind. Dixon was altogether most attractive perconality, a true friend, loved respected by all who knew him. After his death examiners in pharmacology at Cambridge talked over question of a memorial, and went to see Mrs. Dixon, was in favour of the establishmentof a memorial lecture. Eventually a fund was collected amounting to between £700 and£800, and this was handed over to the Society of Medicine for the foundation of a biennial lecture on some subject in which Dixon had been ested. Therapeutics and pharmacology had been neglected from the point of view of lectureships, Edinburgh had had the Cameron lectureship for