As was explained last year, the full Minutes of Annual Meetings are not published in the Bulletin until the following year, generally in the May issue, this having been found most convenient for members who wish to raise any matters arising from these Minutes at the subsequent Meeting. This summary of the proceedings at the Business Meeting on 5 July is based on notes taken at the time. A selection of papers presented on the other days will be published in later issues of the Journal and the Bulletin.

Dr ‘Ben’ Monro died suddenly on 30 May, aged 68 years. He had been a Lord Chancellor's Medical Visitor since 1973. Previously his career had been in psychiatric hospitals and he became a distinguished Medical Superintendent of Long Grove Hospital, Epsom. He was early to introduce there ‘Industrial Therapy’ and elsewhere to develop a ‘Day Hospital’. Again, when the first Adolescent Unit was transferred from St. Ebba's Hospital to Long Grove he at once took an active personal part in the practice of adolescent psychiatry. His few writings reflected his earlier interest in statistical analysis.

The Court of Electors has recently reviewed experience of visiting hospitals that are seeking approval of their training schemes for the Membership examination. Some ideas have crystallized about the features that are considered desirable and that should therefore be looked for. The scheme described below is an ideal one and unlikely to be fully realized in many centres at present; but it may be of interest to colleagues whose hospitals are being visited to know the sorts of things the visiting panel will be bearing in mind. These criteria are a modification of draft guidelines developed by Dr Marshall Annear.

Annual and Quarterly Meetings of the College will be on the following dates in 1979. Please note that the date of the Annual Meeting given in the list published in the November 1977 Bulletin (p 10) has been changed.

The Joint Committee on Higher Psychiatric Training (JCHPT) was set up to monitor the standards of higher training in psychiatry and also ‘to accredit completion of training by the award of an appropriate certificate’.*

Any contribution to the debate on the pros and cons of accreditation is to be welcomed, but I am not sure that Dr Gill's notice does full justice to the complexities of the issue.

The Autumn Term of lectures, tutorials and clinical demonstrations in psychological medicine and allied subjects commences on 6 October and continues until 15 December, each Friday between 10.15 am and 7.30 pm (with the exception of 27 October). Full details on application to Dr Marshall W. Annear, Clinical Tutor and Area Postgraduate Organizer in Psychiatry, Morgannwg (Penyfai) Hospital, Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan CF31 4LN, Wales.