No. 29 July 1999   Honorary members Calum Muir Fellowship News from Associations and Cancer Registries New Honorary Member Dr Lajos Juhàsz joined the ranks of Honorary Members of the IACR. This award was made during the meeting in Atlanta, in recognition of an outstanding career and a profound contribution to epidemiology in Hungary. A very welcome newcomer to the ranks of our most illustrious members. Congratulations to Dr Johannes Clemmesen Hans H Storm Warm congratulations to one of our first Honorary Members, Dr Johannes Clemmesen, the founder of the Danish Cancer Registry in 1942, who was 90 on 14 November 1998. Honorary Membership of the IACR was given to Dr Clemmesen in 1980, acknowledging the importance of his contribution to cancer registration worldwide. Dr Clemmesen was Secretary to the WHO Interim Commission on Cancer Registration from 1950 to 1957, and a member of the WHO Expert Panel on Health Statistics from1951 to 1963. He has had a long career in medicine, being a specialist both in internal medicine and pathology as well as cancer epidemiology, and dedicating time and research to pathology and the basic biology of cancer. Dr Clemmesen - drawing by his artist brother - copied by Birgitte Brandt (registry physician) Dr Clemmesen, whose latest publication - on testis cancer - appeared just a few years ago, provided a solid basis for "geographical pathology" - now better known as cancer registration and cancer epidemiology with his publications, and in particular his famous series "Statistical Studies in Malignant Neoplasms", notably No. I "Review and Results" which gives us all a fabulous look into the literature on cancer epidemiology prior to 1965. He was active at the government cancer hospital (Finsen Institute) until 1978, and continued as Head of the Danish Cancer Registry, Danish Cancer Society until 1980. Since then he has been a frequent visitor to the registry premises always following activities of the cancer epidemiology unit and the cancer registry with great interest. Dr Clemmesen’s work has made him a well known figure in most of the world and he has received numerous honours for his work, the latest being the Ramazzini Prize in 1988. Calum Muir Fellowship News from Associations and Cancer Registries