“…The marriage rate for the Aberdeen women honours graduates of 1931–60 (56%) is less than the 70% reported from the survey of British medical women by Lawrie, Newhouse, and Elliott (1966), the 77% for Glasgow medical women of 1951–4 (Timbury and Ratzer, 1969), the 72% for graduates from the Royal Free Hospital of 1945–64 (Flynn and Gardner, 1969), and the 75% for Aberdeen medical women of 1956–8 (Ogston, Dawson, and McAndrew, 1969). However, any conclusions drawn from this finding of an inverse relationship between marriage rate and outstanding academic achievement must be speculative in view of the comparatively small number of women honours graduates in this survey.…”