The Wellcome Trust has granted Dr Claire Hilton a short-term Research Leave award in the History of Medicine to research ‘Felix Post (1913-2001) - a biographical study’. Dr Hilton would be most interested to hear from anyone who has memories of Felix Post, who may have known him in his early life in Berlin, as a medical student at Bart's, interned on the Isle of Man, as a doctor in the Army, or at any later stages of his career in psychiatry, especially in Edinburgh in the 1940s or at the Maudsley Hospital from 1947-1978. Dr Hilton can be contacted by phone until 31 October 2004 on 07976 768542 or 0208 959 6063; by e-mail ([email protected]) or by post: Mental Health Service for Older Adults, Mental Health Centre, Northwick Park Hospital, Watford Road, Harrow HA1 3UJ.