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University of Glasgow : New Professor of Medicine.? The King lias been pleased, 011 the recommendation of the Secretary of State for Scotland, to appoint John William McNee, Esq., D.S.O., D.Sc., M.D., Ch.B., F.R.C.P., to be Regius Professor of Practice of Medicine in the University of Glasgow, in the place of Professor T. K. Monro, resigned. Professor McNee was a student at Glasgow University where he graduated M.B., Ch.B., with honours, in 1909, and proceeded to the higher degrees of M.D. with honours, in 1914 and D.Sc. in 1920. After graduation he was for a time an assistant to Professor T. K. Monro and Professor Sir Robert Muir. During the war, he served in France and at that time he did excellent work, especially in the investigation of trench fever, gas gangrene and war nephritis. He is best known for his work 011 diseases of the liver and spleen. He is joint author, with Sir Humphrey Rolleston, of the text-book on "Diseases of the Liver, Gall Bladder and Bile Ducts" which is accepted as the standard work on these subjects. His classification of jaundice with diagrammatic explanation of hepatic function has greatly simplified this subject. Within recent years he has carried out intensive investigation of splenic pathology and his diagram, explaining splenic function, will soon be found in all text-books of medicine. His activities have not been confined to these subjects alone for he was one of the first in this country to describe the clinical manifestations of infarction of the heart.