Tavistock House Research Articles

A Drunken Cabman at Charles Dickens's

A Drunken Cabman at Charles Dickens's William F. Long (bio) On Wednesday 21 March 1860 the London evening Globe carried a short account of a case brought that day before the Clerkenwell police magistrate: A DRUNKEN CABMAN AT CHARLES DICKENS'S.—John Wood, a cab driver, badge No. 13,071, was charged with being drunk in his employment as cab-driver, and making use of insulting language at Mr. Charles Dickens's house. The defendant was engaged to drive three ladies from Ampthillsquare to Tavistock House, Tavistock-square. When there he was so drunk that he could not help the ladies out, and in consequence of his making use of insulting language he was given into the custody of police-constable Toomes, 150 P. The defendant was fined 10s, or in default of payment fourteen days' imprisonment.1 Although not especially informative, this brief report of a sordid, minor incident is worthy of note if two quite reasonable assumptions are made. First, that the agent of the prosecution was Charles Dickens himself; and second, that the ladies being driven were three members of the Ternan family, which comprised the widowed Frances Eleanor and her daughters Fanny, Maria and Ellen. [End Page 467] In 1860, nearly two years after separating from his wife, and four years after purchasing Gad's Hill Place, Dickens continued to lease and occasionally stay at their previous home, Tavistock House.2 On the Saturday following the cabman incident he was in Liverpool, having travelled there with Wills to interview invalid soldiers housed in the city's workhouse (Dickens, "Uncommercial Traveller"; Long, "Contemporary Newspaper Accounts"). The Ternans at the time were staying at 2 Houghton Place, Ampthill Square in a house the lease of which had been acquired, probably with Dickens's financial help, the year before. Mrs. Ternan had retired temporarily from the stage. Fanny had recently returned from a two-year stay in Florence and latterly Paris, where, probably sponsored by Dickens, she had been receiving tuition in singing. Her first public performance since her return was to occur in Birmingham the following month.3 Maria, then a member of John Buckstone's company at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, was appearing regularly and successfully onstage. Ellen, a former, less regular and less successful performer at the Haymarket, had left the stage the previous year in circumstances that are unclear (Long, "Invisible Woman"). From 3 March 1860, her twenty-first birthday, the lease of the Ampthill Square house had been registered in her name (Dickens, Letters 9n11). If, as seems likely, it was Dickens who committed the cabdriver into the care of the constable, he probably did so by invoking a particular clause in the 1839 Metropolitan Police Act. This prohibited the use "in any Thoroughfare or Public Place" of "threatening, abusive, or insulting Words or Behaviour with Intent to provoke a Breach of the Peace, or whereby a Breach of the Peace may be occasioned" (Parliament 54.13). He seems to have invoked this law earlier: in an All the Year Round article of 1868 the Uncommercial Traveller recalls an incident from "Years ago" in which he directed a constable to arrest a young girl using bad language in the street.4 The punishment of the cabman is also reminiscent of Dickens's demand, a year and a half before, for action to be taken against a constable said to have questioned inappropriately Maria and Ellen, then living together "unprotected" while their mother and sister were in Florence (Letters 8: 686–87). [End Page 468] We know very little about what Ellen Ternan did in the years immediately following her retirement from the stage. There are indications that she attended the theatre in the company of Dickens and that he directed proofs to her including those of his own work. A probably apocryphal account describes him enjoying social evenings with the Ternans at Ampthill Square (Letters 9: 87, 318 and n, 415 and n; Slater 183–84). The present note adds only a little to this scant information. But we might at least guess which three of the four Ternan ladies were in the cab and why they were being driven to Tavistock House...

Staging The Frozen Deep as Practice-led Research: "Illusion can only be perfected through the feelings."

Staging The Frozen Deep as Practice-led Research:"Illusion can only be perfected through the feelings."1 Joanna Hofer-Robinson (bio) Rapturous tributes to performances of The Frozen Deep by Wilke Collins in 1857 may be hard to understand when we read the drama today; indeed, they even provoked skepticism at the time. Writing in the Examiner in 1857, for example, a reviewer worried that audiences familiar with the sentimental language and stock characters of melodrama, but "who have not seen and judged" Collins's play for themselves, "may not unreasonably suspect us of exaggerated eulogy," when he recorded "the silent tribute of irrepressible tears" recently observed at a private production ("Tavistock House Theatricals" 38). This article suggests that we likewise receive only a partial impression of the play's effect when reading the script in isolation. Emotion is writ large in melodrama and direct verbal articulation is only one device through which nineteenth-century actors communicated heightened feelings. Practitioners also utilized a combination of gesture, music and staging to create affective action and arouse sympathy.2 Such effects are now lost because, like many Victorian melodramas, the play is rarely performed. However, in response to a recent research production of The Frozen Deep, viewers reacted warmly, noting surprise at the play's "emotional intensity" and "emotional power." Although the dialog is stagy and overblown by current standards, the drama retains the potential to communicate and elicit emotion when words are contextualized in performance. A practice-led methodology that decenters Dickens's involvement and [End Page 329] ignores questions about collaborative authorship, biography, and managerial methods has several advantages.3 First, it enables us to conduct a "theatrical close reading" (Whipday and Cox Jensen 292) which illuminates interactions between the ensemble of players, and dialog and movement, that are not accessible when reading the playscript alone. Attention to the cooperation required for any performance by an ensemble of players, musicians and auxiliary personnel also helps us understand the play's emotional effects and intensity. I make this claim based on a research production James Phillips and I co-directed in October 2016, when we staged selected scenes from The Frozen Deep at the annual Dickens Day conference held in Senate House Library, London.4 Drawing on this production, I explore how nineteenth-century performance techniques (including attitudes, realization and tableaux) shape the actor-audience dynamic and the emotional impact of the play. Practice-led research, I should explain, uses "creative performance as a method of inquiry" (Kershaw qtd in Fleishman 28) to examine what can be gathered from "specialised embodied knowledge" (Walton 123).5 The methodology is particularly apt for enquiries led by scholar-practitioners (Peters), theater historians (Bush-Bailey), and musicologists (Hibberd and Nielsen), as each expert investigates bodies of work that are activated by the "experiential and tacit knowledge" of performers (Symonds 212). It is also appropriate to studies of Dickensian dramaturgy.6 The findings presented here are the outcome of a collaborative and interdisciplinary practice which echoes the characteristic intertheatricality of Victorian theatrical cultures [End Page 330] (Robinson, Cox Jensen and Whipday 163).7 Our production would have been impossible without the contributions and advice of musicologists, theater historians, site managers and performers. In addition, by taking advantage of an audience broadly familiar with the play, we were able to position delegates as "co-researcher[s]", rather than "test subject[s]" when we examined their reactions and written responses to post-show questionnaires (Walton 132). Naturally, I do not claim that contemporary audience reaction can be mapped on to those of the original spectators. Affective responses are ephemeral and cannot be empirically measured, particularly at a historical distance. Instead, analysis of actor and audience experiences contribute to a theatrical close reading by offering multiple perspectives on the production. Accordingly, I use the term "practice-led research"–as opposed to "practice-as-research" or "practice-based-research"–to describe "the process of staging Dickens's play[s] as a mode of exploration, rather than as a means of testing a pre-existing hypothesis" (Robinson, Cox Jensen and Whipday 162). My emphasis, therefore, is not on "what is intended but what is learnt" (Symonds 222; italics in original). Practice...

“The Other Woman” – Eliza Davis and Charles Dickens

“The Other Woman” – Eliza Davis and Charles Dickens Murray Baumgarten (bio) The letters Eliza Davis wrote to Charles Dickens, from 22 June 1863 to 8 February 1867, and after his death to his daughter Mamie on 4 August 1870, reveal the increasing self-confidence of English Jews.1 In their careful and accurate comments on the power of Dickens’s work in shaping English culture and popular opinion, and their pointed discussion of the ways in which Fagin reinforces antisemitic English and European Jewish stereotypes, they indicate the concern, as Eliza Davis phrases it, of “a scattered nation” to participate fully in the life of “the land in which we have pitched our tents.2” It is worth noting that by 1858 the fits and starts of Jewish Emancipation in England had led, finally, to the seating of Lionel Rothschild in the House of Commons. After being elected for the fifth time from Westminster he was not required, due to a compromise devised by the Earl of Lucan and Benjamin Disraeli, to take the oath on the New Testament as a Christian.3 [End Page 44] And Eliza and her husband, James Phineas Davis, had in 1860 become the inhabitants of Tavistock House, purchasing it that year from Charles Dickens. In the eyes of the law, English Jews now received the same treatment, privileges and rights as Christian English folk. Yet the Jews were not exactly at ease in England. During the negotiations for his house, Dickens mentions to a friend, that “the purchaser of Tavistock will be a Jew Money Lender.”4 Three days later he writes, “If the Jew Money Lender buys (I say ‘if’ because of course I shall never believe in him until he has paid the money.)”. A month later he writes to Arthur Stone, “I hope you will find the Children of Israel, good neighbours” (Letters 9: 307). Slighting remarks, these. Yet Dickens also adds, that “Mrs. Davis appears to be a very kind and agreeable woman. And I have never had any money transaction with any one, more promptly, fairly, and considerately conducted than the purchase of Tavistock House has been” (Letters 9: 306–07). Praising Eliza Davis, Dickens overcomes the thrown-off comments he had made. Obtuse and unthinking, they derive from the lurking antisemitism and fear-ridden Jewish stereotyping of his era and culture. That stereotype Eliza Davis confronts in her forthright correspondence with Dickens when she notes that “there are other oppressions, <far> much heavier other things far sharper, than the fetters and goads of Damascus Lebanon or Russia” (Clark 1918, 17). How Literature Matters “Emboldened by your Courtesy,” Eliza Davis began her first letter to Charles Dickens on 22 June 1863, initiating a correspondence that would extend throughout the rest of his life and even beyond. It is one of the most sustained exchanges of letters we have between Dickens and someone outside his immediate circle. All her letters to Dickens bore her address: Tavistock House, while Dickens’s came from Gad’s Hill Place and Bradford, Yorkshire, where he was traveling as part of his reading tour. In 1870 after his death, the “Letters from a Jewess” as they were headlined, were excerpted in several newspapers, including The Observer, the Daily News, and The Jewish Chronicle. Like other diligent correspondents, Eliza Davis kept copies of her letters [End Page 45] and interleaved them with Dickens’s responses.5 At Eliza Davis’s death in 1903,6 the full set of letters was included in the Estate Sale and purchased by a friend who passed them on to Cumberland Clark, a journalist, traveler throughout the Empire, and man of letters.7 In 1918, Clark published the complete set of letters as Charles Dickens and His Jewish Characters.8 Dickens’s letters are included in the Pilgrim Edition; and the entire correspondence was republished in 1921 in The Dickensian. Since then the rethinking of Dickens’s achievement, and his public life, as well as the relative obscurity of this exchange, make the chance to revisit them and explore their impact a welcome opportunity. Cumberland Clark prefaces his 1918 publication of the letters with a brief statement, noting that the recent...

Accidental Pregnancy

Accidental Pregnancy Aeron Hunt (bio) On 13 March 1852, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens “arrived at Tavistock House,” the tenth child of Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine (Dickens 625). While the birth occasioned paternal effusions—Plorn, as he came to be called, is deemed “a golden baby,” “a brilliant boy of unheard-of dimensions” in letters to Elizabeth Gaskell and W.H. Wills (Dickens 625, 624)—a sour note is also struck. One hopes that Plorn was spared the reading of Dickens’s announcement to Angela Burdett Coutts: “I am happy to say that Mrs. Dickens and the seventh son—whom I cannot afford to receive with perfect cordiality, as on the whole I could have dispensed with him—are as well as possible” (627). And to William Howitt: “Mrs. Dickens and her boy are in a most blooming condition. I am not quite clear that I particularly wanted the latter, but I have no doubt that he is good for me in some point of view or other” (Dickens 629). Though Plorn came to be a favourite, the novelist’s account of his origins makes it easy to read the child as an accident (a word Dickens does not use), the last in a series of later pregnancies and births that he felt “superfluous” (Bodenheimer 152). It tells us nothing about Catherine Dickens’s perspective on the pregnancy; her biographer Lillian Nayder has suggested that Catherine “never voiced regret at giving birth ten times” (160). Without proof that Charles and Catherine were mutually and deliberately trying to limit their fertility by this point in their marriage, it is impossible to be certain that Plorn was the result of a slip. Even if it were possible, a married, financially comfortable couple is not the most dramatic context for an emblematic image of accidental pregnancy in an era in which literary fallen women such as Gaskell’s Ruth or George Eliot’s Hetty Sorrel captured the public imagination. And the hunt for a single representative instance of an experience that varies so greatly might be misguided in any case. Still, in its ordinariness as well as its specific features, the example of Charles, Catherine, and Plorn highlights aspects of the concept of accident that suggest its particular relevance to the gendered terrain of Victorian reproduction and risk. [End Page 43] Charles and Catherine’s ten children were born toward the end of a long period, starting around 1750, in which fertility in Britain had been on the rise—a rise that resulted from both an increased frequency of marriage and increased fertility within marriage (Szreter 418). For the decades from 1860 to 1940, demographers describe a “dramatic” fertility decline, with the average number of births per woman falling to a little over two from approximately six (Szreter 1). While historians debate the mechanisms behind this decrease, they suggest that efforts to space or stop births played a key role. Periodic abstinence and coitus interruptus are credited for much of the decline; in fact, Simon Szreter suggests that these practices formed part of a larger cultural shift emphasizing the values of self-restraint and continence (chap. 8). For those with the knowledge and the money to employ them—not a large number, according to Szreter—and then the ability to negotiate their use, devices such as pessaries, sponges, douches, and condoms existed as tools to prevent pregnancy, and abortion also played a role in limiting births (McLaren; Szreter 424–31). Insofar as accident implies a failure of intention and agency, this context is significant; one has to be able to imagine the possibility of control in order for the concept to make sense, whether describing a pregnancy that results from an imperfect method of birth control or simply a pregnancy that is unwanted or unintentional, and whether or not specific efforts had gone into prevention. To be sure, such efforts—and the need to name their failures—did not first occur to people in 1860. Accident was used to describe unwanted or unintentional pregnancy well before the start date assigned to this demographic shift: the oed gives 1850 as the first appearance of the usage, but the text that it cites...

DICKENS'S “JEWISH QUESTION”: PARIAH CAPITALISM AND THE WAY OUT

The story – we might almost saylegend – of how Dickens came to make the character of Riah inOur Mutual Frienda benign figure and a deliberate revision of Fagin, underworld denizen ofOliver Twist, is well known. In 1860, an Anglo-Jewish couple, J. P. and Eliza Davis, bought Charles Dickens's London home, Tavistock House. Dickens remarked to his personal secretary, William Wills, that he could not recall any “money-making dealings . . . that have been so satisfactory, considerate, and trusting” (Johnson 487). This expression of relief and slight surprise that the sale of his property to a Jewish family was without complication followed on Dickens's suspicion, crudely expressed earlier in the negotiations, that the “Jew Money-Lender” (as he referred to J. P. Davis) would not come through on the deal (Stone 243). But, though the Davises proved surprisingly cooperative in this phase of the transaction as far as Dickens was concerned, Mrs. Davis did ultimately have a complaint to register with the great writer and delivered it politely in a letter three years later. It was not about the house or the terms of purchase but rather about the character of Fagin, created by Dickens in 1837, some twenty-six years earlier. English Jews, she told him, had taken offense at this portrayal of one of their people and believed Dickens had done them a “great wrong” by offering the greedy, thieving, child-corrupting, sausage-eating criminal as representative of their “scattered nation” (Lane 98). Still, she added, while the author lived he might conceivably “justify himself or atone” for this deed. Apparently contrite and unaware of feeling any of the prejudices his portrait of the London fence might convey, Dickens declared in a letter back to Mrs. Davis that he had only “friendly feelings” for the Jews. His contrition did not end there. For the novel he was then beginning to write, Dickens would create a beneficent Jewish character, Riah, friend to the river dredger's daughter, Lizzie Hexam, and her misshapen companion, the dolls’ dressmaker, Jenny Wren. As the late-nineteenth century Anglo-Jewish poet and novelist Amy Levy put it, Dickens “trie[d] to compensate for his having affixed the label ‘Jew’ to one of his bad fairies by creating the good fairy Riah” (Levy 176).

Lost &amp; Found: 194. Photographs of Irish naturalists

Nora McMillan (The Nook, Uplands Road, Bromborough, Merseyside L62 2BZ) writes: In about 1970 the late A.W, Stelfox gave to me a small collection of old photographs of Irish naturalists which he had from R, Lloyd Praeger in 1949. The people represented are as follows: 1. [2nd] Earl of Enniskillen [1807-1886, fossil collector] • photo by Maull, Tavistock House, Fulham Road, London; 2. Dr Robert Ball (1802-1857). photo by Magill of Donegall Place, Belfast. (This is reproduced in Some Irish Naturalists); 3. G.C. Hyndham. photo by John Gibson, 20 Castle Lane, Belfast. (This is reproduced in Some Irish Naturalists); 4. John Fowler *died 29 Feby. 68, aged 62 years*, photo by Thos. North, Grafton Street, Dublin; 5. Sir Edward Coey...

Anasthesia for developing countries—a group for interested anasthetists

AnaesthesiaVolume 39, Issue 9 p. 931-931 Free Access Anasthesia for developing countries—a group for interested anasthetists M.B. Dobson, M.B. Dobson Nuffield Department of Anasthetics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DUSearch for more papers by this authorJ.E. Goodwin, J.E. Goodwin International Relations Committee, Association of Anasthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, Tavistock House South, London WC1Search for more papers by this author M.B. Dobson, M.B. Dobson Nuffield Department of Anasthetics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DUSearch for more papers by this authorJ.E. Goodwin, J.E. Goodwin International Relations Committee, Association of Anasthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, Tavistock House South, London WC1Search for more papers by this author First published: September 1984 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1984.tb06590.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume39, Issue9September 1984Pages 931-931 RelatedInformation

Mortality associated with anaesthesia

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News and Notices

AnaesthesiaVolume 33, Issue 9 p. 861-861 Free Access News and Notices First published: October 1978 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1978.tb08525.x All communications should be addressed to The Editor of Anaesthesia, The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland, Room 475, Tavistock House South, Tavistock Square, London WCI H 9LG. The sub-editor of the section is Dr Richard H. Ellis, Consultant Anaesthetist, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume33, Issue9October 1978Pages 861-861 RelatedInformation

A cause of inaccuracy in vaporiser delivery

AnaesthesiaVolume 32, Issue 10 p. 1037-1037 Free Access A cause of inaccuracy in vaporiser delivery C.P. Bahl, C.P. Bahl Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry 605006, IndiaSearch for more papers by this author C.P. Bahl, C.P. Bahl Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry 605006, IndiaSearch for more papers by this author First published: November 1977 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1977.tb09972.xCitations: 1 All correspondence should be sent to the Editor of Anaesthesia, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, Room 475, Tavistock House South, Tavistock Square, London WC1 9JP, England. The Section is compiled by Dr Richard H. Ellis, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. The Editor would be grateful if correspondents would double-space their copy and use the format in which letters are customarily printed in Anaesthesia. AboutReferencesRelatedInformationPDFPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessClose modalShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. References 1 Paterson, G.M., Hulands, G.H. & Nunn, J.F. (1969) Evaluation of a new halothane vapouriser: the Cyprane Fluotec Mark III. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 41, 109. Citing Literature Volume32, Issue10November 1977Pages 1037-1037 ReferencesRelatedInformation RecommendedThe Diamedica Draw‐Over Vaporizer: a comparison of a new vaporizer with the Oxford Miniature VaporizerW. A. English, R. Tully, G. D. Muller, R. J. J. Eltringham, AnaesthesiaAnaesthesia with the Boyle's bottle vaporizerS. A. WHITE, L. STRUNIN, AnaesthesiaCan a drawover vaporizer be a pushover?J. C. TAYLOR, J. RESTALL, AnaesthesiaThe contamination of volatile anaesthetics in an in‐circle vaporiser with water during prolonged closed‐circle anaesthesiaG. R. Harrison, AnaesthesiaThe Oxford Miniature Vaporizer in paediatric anaesthesia. An experimental studyI. H. Wilson MB, ChB, FFARCS, R. J. E. Page MB, ChB, FFARCS, M. J. H. Yeats Registrars, Anaesthesia

Correspondence*

AnaesthesiaVolume 31, Issue 9 p. 1286-1287 Free Access Correspondence* M. K. Sykes, M. K. Sykes Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London W12Search for more papers by this author M. K. Sykes, M. K. Sykes Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London W12Search for more papers by this author First published: November 1976 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1976.tb11988.x * All correspondence should be sent to the Editor of Anaesthesia, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, Room 475, Tavistock House South, Tavistock Square, London WC1 9JP, England. The section is compiled by Dr Richard H. Ellis, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume31, Issue9November 1976Pages 1286-1287 ReferencesRelatedInformation

Systeme International (SI) conversion tables*

AnaesthesiaVolume 31, Issue 7 p. 970-973 Free Access Systeme International (SI) conversion tables* First published: September 1976 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1976.tb11932.x * Copies of this notice are available from The Secretary, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, Tavistock House, Tavistock Square, London WClH 9JP. Price 20 pence, post free. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume31, Issue7September 1976Pages 970-973 RelatedInformation

Systeme International (SI) conversion tables*

AnaesthesiaVolume 31, Issue 6 p. 820-823 Free Access Systeme International (SI) conversion tables* First published: July 1976 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1976.tb11891.x † Copies of this notice are available from The Secretary, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, Tavistock House, Tavistock Square, London WClH 9JP. Price 20 pence, post free. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume31, Issue6July 1976Pages 820-823 RelatedInformation

Correspondence*

AnaesthesiaVolume 31, Issue 5 p. 702-703 Free Access Correspondence* Michael Rosen MB, FFARCS, Michael Rosen MB, FFARCS Department of Anaesthetics, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, CardiffSearch for more papers by this authorG. Rees MB, FFARCS, G. Rees MB, FFARCS Department of Anaesthetics, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, CardiffSearch for more papers by this authorJ. F. Pearson MD, J. F. Pearson MD Department of Anaesthetics, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, CardiffSearch for more papers by this author Michael Rosen MB, FFARCS, Michael Rosen MB, FFARCS Department of Anaesthetics, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, CardiffSearch for more papers by this authorG. Rees MB, FFARCS, G. Rees MB, FFARCS Department of Anaesthetics, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, CardiffSearch for more papers by this authorJ. F. Pearson MD, J. F. Pearson MD Department of Anaesthetics, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, CardiffSearch for more papers by this author First published: June 1976 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1976.tb11854.x * Correspondence should be addressed to the Editor of Anaesthesia, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland, Tavistock House South, Tavistock Square, London WCIH 9JP, England. The Sub-Editor of this section is Dr Richard H. Ellis, Consultant Anaesthetist, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume31, Issue5June 1976Pages 702-703 RelatedInformation

Système International (SI) Conversion tables*

AnaesthesiaVolume 31, Issue 5 p. 705-708 Free Access Système International (SI) Conversion tables* First published: June 1976 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1976.tb11856.x * Copies of this notice are available from The Secretary, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, Tavistock House South, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP. Price 20 pence, post free. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume31, Issue5June 1976Pages 705-708 RelatedInformation

Système International (SI) Conversion tables*

AnaesthesiaVolume 31, Issue 4 p. 592-595 Free Access Système International (SI) Conversion tables* First published: May 1976 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1976.tb12397.x * Copies of this notice are available from The Secretary, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, Tavistock House South, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP. Price 20 pence, post free. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume31, Issue4May 1976Pages 592-595 RelatedInformation

Système International (SI) Conversion tables*

AnaesthesiaVolume 31, Issue 2 p. 319-322 Free Access Système International (SI) Conversion tables* First published: March 1976 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1976.tb11826.x * Copies of this notice are available from The Secretary, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, Tavistock House South, Tavistock Square, London WClH 9JP. Rice 20 pence, post free. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume31, Issue2March 1976Pages 319-322 RelatedInformation

Anaesthesia and the Système International (SI)*

AnaesthesiaVolume 31, Issue 1 p. 122-126 Free Access Anaesthesia and the Système International (SI)* First published: January 1976 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1976.tb11771.x * Copies of this notice are available from The Secretary, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, Tavistock House South, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP. Price 20 Pence, post free. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume31, Issue1January 1976Pages 122-126 ReferencesRelatedInformation

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AnaesthesiaVolume 30, Issue 5 p. 604-608 Free Access Anaesthesia and the Systeme International (SI)* First published: September 1975 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1975.tb00919.x * Copies of this notice are available from The Secretary, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, Tavistock House South, Tavistock Square, London WClH 9JP, Price 20 pence, post free. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat References 1 Baron, D.N. (1974) Contemporary themes. SI units. British Medical Journal, 4, 509. 2 Bold, A.M. & Wilding, P. (1975) Clinical Chemistry: Conversion Scales for SI Units with Adult Normal Reference Values. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford . 3 Editorial, Notice (1975) SI units: definitions, normal ranges and conversion factors. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 56, 222. 4 Ellis, G. (1971) Units, Symbols and Abbreviations: a Guide for Biological and Medical Editors and Authors: Recommendations of a Working Party set up at a Conference of Medical Editors held in London on 2 December 1968. Royal Society of Medicine, London . 5 Padmore, G.R.A. & Nunn, J.F. (1974) SI units in relation to anaesthesia. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 46, 236. Volume30, Issue5September 1975Pages 604-608 ReferencesRelatedInformation

International and Foreign Media

Colin Seymour-Ure's The Political Impact of Mass Media (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1974–415.00) F.A. Mumby and Ian Norrie's Publishing and Bookselling (London: Jonathan Cape, 1973–$27.00) Anthony Smith (ed.) British Broadcasting (Newton Abbot, England: David and Charles, 1974–about $11.00) Alan Wells (ed.) Mass Communications: A World View (Palo Alto, Calif.: National Press Books, 1974–price not known, paper) Kaarle Nordenstreng (ed.) Informational Mass Communication (Tammi Publishers, Hameetie 15, 01500 Helsinki 50, Finland–cost now known, paper) Wolfgang Kempes' International Bibliography of Comics Literature (New York: Bowker, 1974–$18.50) Intermedia (published for members of the International Broadcast Institute, Tavistock House East, Tavistock Square, London WC1) International Communications Bulletin (School of Communications and Theater, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. 19122)