DR. BROWN-SÉQUARD'S LECTURES: SIR C. BELL'S PAMPHLET.

Sir John Campbell Brown, K.C.B.

The last English mail lias confirmed a rumour, which has during the Inst few weeks been floating among us, namely, that the much esteemed and respected head of the Indian Medical Department is among those whom the Queen has delighted to honor on the occasion of lier 5Gth birth-day. Of tho long roll of distinguished names which the London Gazette of the 29th May published as recipients of royal ...

Asthma mortality: comparison between New Zealand and England SIR,-Dr

SIR,-Dr Ian W Grant (3 January, p 53) raises several issues about mortality from asthma in New Zealand. Many are discussed in other papers arising from the New Zealand National Asthma Mortality Study.'"3 A post hoc comparison of our findings (22 November, p 1342) with those of the only similar study in another country4 was logical, provided we allowed for ethnic and age differences in mortality...

Dr. C. J. C. Earl

Lectures

Jingle Bells: Solving the Santa Claus Problem in Polyphonic C

The Santa Claus problem is an interesting exercise in concurrent programming which has been used in a comparison of the concurrency mechanisms of Ada and Java. We present a simple solution to the problem in Polyphonic C , an extension of C with new concurrency constructs based on the Join calculus.