Dr. John Putnam Merrill, of the Harvard University Medical School and Boston's Peter Bent Hospital, will lecture on artificial kidneys here Feb. 16. ^H
He will speak at Charity Hospital under the auspices of the Alpha Omega Alpha chapter of Louisiana State University.
On Feb. 15 he will conduct a clinic at th6 hospital at noon and participate in a cardiac clinic at 4 p. m. That night he will be the guest at a banquet at which the fraternity will initiate new members.
The LSU Medical School students to be initiated are C. Adrien Bodet, Jr., Charles L. Chavigny, Richard W. Hughes, Alton J. Mor-ris, Joseph K. Perloff, Meyer Kaplan and Nathan L. Fern, all of New Orleans; Millard E. Byrd, Jr., Henry B. Harvey and Carlton W. Van Natta, all of Baton Rouge; Kathleen E. White, Shreveport; Frank X. Cline, Monroe; James M. Young, Ruston; Rodney E. Lan-dreneau, Eunice, and Suzanne A. Dugas, Donaldsonville.