Abstract

DR. E. T. C. SPOONER, who has been appointed to the University of London chair of bacteriology and immunologytenable at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, went to Epsom College and to Clare College, Cambridge, where he obtained first classes in both parts 1 and 2 of the Natural Sciences Tripos. After the completionof clinical study at St. Bartholomew'sHospital, he was house-physician to the late Sir Walter Langdon-Brown ; hewas elected to a Commonwealth fellowship and worked for two years with Prof. Hans Zinsser in the Department of Bacteriology of Harvard University. On his return from America he was elected to a fellowship at Clare College, and a University demonstratorship in the Department of Pathology at Cambridge. He was later elected to a University lectureship and took charge of the teaching in bacteriology for both Part 1 and Part 2 of the Natural Sciences Tripos.

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