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 proved itself so progressive, intelligent, and efficient in other directions, is fully in the van in this department also, and has already done most excellent work in pathology and other subjects.

Another important and promising feature is the development of the application of scientific research for particular purposes, and for the study of special subjects, among the most prominent of which may be mentioned tuberculosis, cancer, tropical diseases, nervous affections, psychology, sanitation and hygiene, immunity, and heredity. Tuberculosis is, as you know, being investigated from every possible point of view, and on a vast scale, in different parts of the world, and the results obtained have already been most encouraging. In relation to Cancer, it is but right and fitting that we should pay due honour to Middlesex Hospital, where a Cancer department was founded by the efforts of Dr. John Howard so long ago as 1792; and where a new set of laboratories for research work in relation to this disease, started in 1900, have recently been completed. The Imperial Cancer Research Fund, previously mentioned in connection with Examination Hall, has already, within the short period of its existence, achieved substantial progress, and gives great promise for the future. Its work is being carried on, not only in the mother country, but also in our Colonies and Protectorates, with the sympathetic co-operation of scientists in France,