ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21409, 27 February 1935, Page 18

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

CONGRESS IN MELBOURNE NEXT MONTH NEW HEADQUARTERS TO BB OPENED The eighth annual meeting of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, which will be held in Melbourne shortly, will be marked by the opening of the new headquarters o the college on March 4. The College of Surgeons' building, which has been erected on the site of the old Mod School, Spring street, Melbourne, will be officially opened by Sir Holbiff Waring, president of the Royal Co . lege of Surgeons of EnglandHenry Wade, surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, will represent . Royal College of Surgeons of burgh, and Dr. Donald C. Balfo > professor of surgery of the Universe of Minnesota, and chief of the surg staff of the Mayo Clinic, will repre sent the American College of geons. Other distinguished surgeons who are making the journey to A tralia, to be present at the ceremo y> are Sir D'Arcy Power, F.R.C.S.. consulting surgeon to 3 Bartholomew's Hospital, Pro l Edward Archibald, professor 1 . gery, McGill University, _ Monte««> Professor John Fraser, regius proies scr, clinical surgery, University "' Edinburgh, Dr. Dean Lewis, proiessu of surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, timore, and Professor C. F- S , professor of surgery, University Cape Town. , wifie Many papers of particular s3 interest will be read by the overseas visiting surgeons at the congress Australian and New Zealand which will extend over a ve sri> rs„ fessor F. Wood Jones, F.R.S., will give tjje George Adlmgton (i y™j oration, "The Master Surgeon, J* many important subjects ot S 0 f interest, including the treata j cancer, the education of the ni man after graduation, and esp - the education of surgeons and tn pital facilities offered them, wxu be considered. The discussions gj r these subjects will be openea Holburt Waring.