THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIA- 

 TION AND THE UNIVERSITY 



OF TORONTO 

 The British Medical Association 

 held its .seventy-fourth meeting at Tor- 

 onto, beginning on August 21. There 

 were in attendance about 1,400 British 

 and Canadian members of the associa- 

 tion and about GOO visitors and guests 

 from the X'nited States. In addition 

 to some 300 members from the British 

 islands*, there were delegates from In- 

 dia, South Africa and other widely 

 separated parts of the British Empire, 

 and several scientific men from the 

 European continent. The meeting had 

 thus many of the advantages of an 

 international gathering, without the 

 polyglot confusion. Dr. R. A. Reeve, 

 dean of the Medical Faculty of the 

 University of Toronto, made the presi- 

 dential address, and there were ad- 



dresses in medicine, by Sir James 

 Ban-, in surgery, by Sir Victor Hors- 

 ley. and in obstetrics, by Dr. W. S. A. 

 Grift'eth. The sections covered derma- 

 tology, laryngology and otology, medi- 

 cine, obstetrics and gynecology, oph- 

 thalmology, pediatrics, pathology and 

 bacteriology, physiology, psychology 

 state medicine, surgery and thera- 

 peutics. As usual in British scientific 

 meetings, the social features were 

 prominent, and the excursions numer- 

 ous and well arranged. 



Not the least interesting part of 

 the meeting was the opportunity of 

 visiting Toronto and its great univer- 

 sity. The movement which ended in 

 the establishment of the University of 

 Toronto was initiated in the eighteenth 

 century, but the institution, which was 

 originally called King's College, was 

 not opened until 1843. Numerous 



The New Medical Building. 



