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THE seventy-eighth annual meeting of the British Medical Association was held in London, for the first, time since 1895, on Julv 26–30, in the buildings of the University of London. There was a very large attendance, which included a number of foreign guests and over-sea delegates and members. The Earl of Crewe and the Right Hon. Walter Long, M.P., were elected honorary members. Reference was made to Mr. Long's work, which resulted in the abolition of hydrophobia from these islands. Mr. Henry T. Butlin, the famous surgeon, was elected president. At the commencement of the proceedings he announced, amid loud cheers, that the King had signified his willingness to become patron, as his revered father was before him. The president in his address directed attention to the persevering work of the association since 1834 in placing the medical profession upon an increasingly satisfactory footing. He referred to the valuable assistance given by the association to the cause of original research. Since 1874, when scientific grants were founded, large sums have been awarded every year for research work. In 1884 two research scholarships were founded to enable men to devote their whole time to particular researches. Mr. Butlin pointed out that it was desirable to encourage research even though there were no prospect of immediate benefit from the particular line of research taken up, and he instanced cases in which an apparently unproductive investigation had led to results of rast practical importance.
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The British Medical Association in London . Nature 84, 153–154 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084153a0
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