In our December 1969 issue we called attention to the first volume of the “Henry Dunant Institute Collection” containing “Un Souvenir de Solférino” and some of Dunant's unpublished writings under the general title “L'Avenir sanglant”. The collection has now been enriched with a new volume entitled “Mémoires” which the Henry Dunant Institute is editing in French, jointly with the Éditions de l'Age d'homme, Lausanne. The book was compiled and presented by Professor Bernard Gagnebin, Dean of the Geneva University Faculty of Arts. He undertook the selection of the manuscripts—102 exercise books—found in three boxes deposited with the Geneva University Public Library. This was a difficult and delicate task, as Professor Gagnebin himself admits in a lengthy introduction: “the Mémoires were not in the form of a continuous text but of an unfinished work. We reconstituted them from more than thirty exercise books and we divided them into thirty-four chapters”.

In its Circular No. 479 of August 23, 1970, the International Committee of the Red Cross had the honour to invite the Central Committees of National Societies to send in the names of nurses and voluntary aids whom they judged qualified to receive the Florence Nightingale Medal. This invitation, which quoted Article 1 of the Regulations, was accompanied by questionnaires bearing various headings for the candidatures.

From 27 January to 25 February 1971 Dr. Roland Marti, chief medical officer of the ICRC, and Mr. Bernard Daniel, delegate, paid a series of visits to detention centres in Indonesia.

They went first to the island of Buru, in the Southern Moluccas, where political detainees are being held, grouped in thirteen agricultural units along the River Apu. They were able, for the moment, to see three of the units. They talked in private with detainees of their choice, and their reports have, in accordance with established practice, been transmitted to the detaining authorities.

In our last issue we had regretfully to inform our readers of the death of Mr. Martin Bodmer. Now it is the death on 23 April 1971 of Dr. Hans Meuli, another honorary member, which we have the painful duty of announcing.

The European Economic Community (EEC) has donated to the ICRC for the current year 7,000 tons of cereal products (maize, wheat, barley, oats and millet) to a value of 6 million Swiss francs (including freight and handling costs). After milling, they will produce about 4,200 tons of flour or semolina. This gift will be utilized by the ICRC to provide food aid for various relief actions.

The ICRC Relief Service despatched several consignments recently: a mobile clinic worth 30,000 francs was donated to the Ecuadorean Red Cross, and one ton of powdered milk was handed over to the Trinidad and Tobago National Society.

On 26 August 1970 the International Committee addressed to National Societies a letter drawing attention to the importance of constantly expanding the dissemination of knowledge concerning the Geneva Conventions. Subsequently, in January of the present year, the International Committee reverted to the matter in a further letter, which contained a summary of the replies received from various National Societies.