The British Universities Human Embryo Database has been created by merging information from the Walmsley Collection of Human Embryos at the School of Biological and Medical Sciences, University of St Andrews and from the Boyd Collection of Human Embryos at the Department of Anatomy, University of Cambridge. The database has been made available electronically on the Internet and World Wide Web browsers can be used to implement interactive access to the information stored in the British Universities Human Embryo Database. The database can, therefore, be accessed and searched from remote sites and specific embryos can be identified in terms of their location, age, developmental stage, plane of section, staining technique, and other parameters. It is intended to add information from other similar collections in the UK as it becomes available.

Professor T. R. Trevor-Jones, former Professor and Head of the Department of General Anatomy, Faculty of Dentistry, University of the Witwatersrand, died in Gauteng on 19th September 1996.

A 2-year-old boy presented with a suspected urethrocutaneous fistula. He had been born at 26 wk gestation and spent 14 wk in the special care baby unit with severe respiratory problems and an episode of meningitis. He had not had a urinary catheter in situ or urinary tract infections. Bilateral inguinal hernias had been repaired. At presentation he was below the 3rd centile for height and weight but had reached all other developmental milestones.

Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland

15–17 July 1997. Medical School, University of Edinburgh.

6–8 January 1998. University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

24–2 July 2000. University of Cambridge.