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sociation, for: " During this last year our 

 main activity has been directed towards get- 

 ting representatives of Natural Science and 

 of the Humanities to work together, on the 

 principle that those subjects never should 

 be in conflict with one another, but merely 

 in friendly competition. Both are equally es- 

 sential for a liberal education. It is a contin- 

 uation and a symbol of that policy that we 

 should ask Sir William Osier to become our 

 President, and that he should have accept- 

 ed cordially and readily, as he did. He is 

 eminent as a man of science, is President of 

 the Bibliographical Society, and represents 

 scholarship in medicine in its best form." 

 It is quite possible that these last remarks 

 may have suggested to the succeeding Pres- 

 ident an appropriate topic for his address, 

 for he told the writer a few months later that 

 he planned to talk on Science and the Hu- 

 manities. He was already turning the mat- 

 ter over in his mind, but where he found 



