Calendar of Meetings
1972
Publication OSa calendar of meetings which may interest those engaged in clinical or experimental research on the eye is a new departure for Experimental Eye Research. It is being undertaken as part of the co-ordinating activities of the newly formed International Committee for Eye Research. To make the calendar more complete it is hoped that Secretaries of Societies will send notices of meetings to Dr 8. P,irie, lVu$ield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 6AW, CX. Publication does not imply that these meetings are open to those who are not members of the Society concerned, although they may be so. 8-9 April
Rudolph Ellender Foundation. Instruction fitting, in conjunction with
in Contact Lens
9-14 April
New Orleans Academy of Ophthalmology “Symposium on Contact Lenses”. Lectures, panel discussionsand “round tables”. Guest lecturers. Further information from Moss Anthony, M.D., 515 Audubon Building, 931 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112.
13-16 April
Medical University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary. 13th Meeting of the Association for Eye Research.Further information : Dr D. Cole, Institute of Ophthahnology, Judd Street, London W.C.1, England.
17-21 14pril
Fourth Congress of the European Society of Ophthalmology VIII, Ille’s v. 15. Budapest, Hungary. Main subject “Functional examinations in Ophthalmology”. Meetings of International Assoeia.tionfor the prevention of blindness. International Organisation against Trachoma. Association for Eye Research. European Society for Contact lenses.Intra-ocular Implant Club. Symposia. Second Lacumal System Symposium. Ultrastructure of Eye. Endocrine relations in Ophthalmology. International Ergophthalmological Symposium. Also, free communications. Secretary: Professor B. Nemeth.
17-21 April
Budapest, Hungary. 4th European Congressof Ophthalmology-.
21-26 ilugust
Bochum, IVest Germany. 6th International Congresson Photobiology.
33-25 September International Committee for Eye Research, Symposium, “Lens and Aging”, Woods Hole, Mass. U.S.A. Subjects for discussion include : Transparency ; Structure and Function of Membranes; Cytology; Metabolism; Proteins; Cataract Formation. Further information from Dr J. H. Kinoshita, Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 243 CharlesStreet, Boston, Mass. 02114, U.S.A. 379
:iStl September
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