Dr. E. Eric POCHIN, CBE “4D FRCP Director of the (British) “Medical Research Council's Department of Clinical Research, in University College Hospital Medical School, London; and Consultant Physician in University College Hospital, and Honorary Lecturer in the Medical School. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians since 1946, and member of its Council from 1966 to 1968. ‘Member of tue Association of Physicians of Gt. Britain and ws. Ireland, of the Royal Society of Medicine, and of the British Medical Association. Member of the Ethics Committee of the School and Hospital. Engaged since appointment as Director of the Department in 1946 in clinical work in thyroid and other diseases, in medical teaching, and in research, particularly into the investigation and treatment of thyroid disease, the treatment of thyroid over-activity, and the study of the diagnosis, metabolism and therapy of thyroid cancer; and author of various papers on thyroid cancer and disease. Member of the European Thyroid Association, the Thyroid Club of London, and (corresponding member) of the American Thyroid Association. ilember of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, formerly Vice Chairman (1959-62) and Chairman (1962-69) of this CommisSion and member of its Committee on Internal Dose. Member, formerly Chairman, of the British Medical Research Council's Committee on Protection against Lonising Radiation and member of its Committee on Internal Dose. Member of the british Institute of Radiology, and lionorary Member of the Faculty of Radiologists, British Radiation Protection Association and the Japanese Radiological Society. UK Representative on United Nations Scientific Committee on the effects of Atomic Radiation since 1956, and formerly Chairman of its Biological section. GMM spiougg ll