PROF. HUMPHREY FEANCIS HUMPHBEYS has been appointed to suceed Prof. M. L. E. Oliphant, who retires frorm the post on September 30, as vice-principal.Prof. Humphreys was educated at Broms-grove School and the University of Birmingham. After graduating, he went for a time to the Dental School of Harvard University and later travelled extensively in America, Japan, Malaya, Burma and India. On his return he went into partnership as dental surgeon with his father, the late John Humphreys, the distinguished archaeologist, who played a leading part in the creation of the Dental School. of the University. In the First World War Prof. Humphreys served in the East and commanded a cavalry field ambulance in the advance into Syria in 1918, gaining the M.C. In 1919 he resumed his dental practice and was appointed lecturer in dental anatomy in the University. After being assistant-surgeon at the Birmingham Dental Hospital he became an honorary surgeon in 1925. In 1934 he was appointed an honorary physician to the King, and in the following year he became professor of dental surgery and director of dental studies in the University. During 1939–46 he was colonel in command of the Fourteenth General Hospital. In 1946 he was appointed deputy lieutenant for Warwickshire. Prof. Humphreys is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the University Grants Committee, the Nuffield Provincial Hospital Trust, the Medical Research Council and Birmingham Regional Hospital Board.