The 1984 meeting of the Biological Council, Co-Ordinating Committee for Symposia on Drug Addiction, ‘Control and Manipulation of Calcium Movement’, will be held from 30 April to 1 May 1984 at the Royal Institution, London W1. Information: Mrs J. Kruger, c/o Department of Pharmacology, St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London SE1 7EH.

The Autumn Quarterly Meeting was held in London on 17 and 18 November 1983 at the Institute of Psychiatry, under the Presidency of Professor Kenneth Rawnsley.

Thomas Bewley will take up office as the new President of the College at the Annual Meeting in July. He has been closely connected with the College for many years, and was Sub-Dean from 1972–77 and Dean from 1977–82. He has also been Secretary and Chairman of the Manpower and Education Committees. His particular interests lie in the field of drug dependence and he has published on this subject, as well as on medical manpower and the side-effects of drugs. He was a co-founder of the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence, and a member of both the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and its precursor the Standing Advisory Committee on Drug Dependence. He was a consultant adviser to the DHSS for nine years, and has been a Consultant Psychiatrist since 1961 at Tooting Bec and St Thomas Hospitals.