6 H. G. SMITH. 
for this}jreason Cobar was selected as the Australian station, 
this locality being 360 miles north-westerly of Sydney. The 
instruments have been installed there recently, ina disused 
portion of one of the mines, 430 feet below the surface so 
as to avoid thermal warping due to solar radiation. The 
registration of each station will be continued for at least 
two years, and the measurements and reductions will be 
carried out at head-quarters in Hurope. 
Perhaps the most momentous question which has arisen 
during the past year, concerning the health of the people, 
is the marvellous success which has attended the treat- 
ment of cancer with radium. The initial experimental 
stages have shown most satisfactory results, and the more 
that is known about the action of radium on growths of 
this nature, the more enthusiastic specialists become. 
Early this year, Dr. W. S. Lazarus-Barlow, of the Mid- 
dlesex Hospital, England, made some startling statements. 
when recounting the satisfactory results of treatment at 
that institution. The United States of America has shown 
considerable anxiety in reference to this question, and 
through the kindness of Mr. Radcliff, I have been able to 
read the reports of the inquiry on radium before the Com- 
mittee of Mines and Mining (The House of Representatives) 
held on January 19th last. Testimony to the efficacy of 
radium in the treatment of cancer was given by Dr. H. A. 
Kelly of Baltimore ; Dr. Robert Abbe, Senior Surgeon, St. 
Luke’s Hospital, New York City; Dr. H. R. Gaylord, 
Director, State Institute for Study of Malignant Disease, 
Buffalo; and Dr. C. F. Burnham, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 
Baltimore ; who all certified to the splendid results they 
obtained with radium, and Dr. Kelly declared that radium 
was the most remarkable therapeutic agent which has ever 
been put into the hands of man, and that it had far greater 
curative effects in cancer than had been hitherto suspected. 
The cry was in all cases for more radium, so that even 
