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THE new laboratories of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund were opened on June 27 (see also p. 41). Sir Humphry Rolleston, chairman of the Executive Committee, read a message of regret from Lord Halifax, president of the Fund, who at the last moment had found himself unable to attend. Lord Halifax said that all would appreciate that at the present time he is even more than usually subject to sudden and unavoidable calls on his time and that although he ought not, perhaps, to have agreed to open the new laboratories he had been particularly anxious to do so. Lord Halifax sent the notes which he had prepared for his speech, in which he reviewed the history of the foundation of the Fund and its progress. He referred to the many famous men, including Lord Lister, A. J. Balfour and Joseph Chamberlain, who helped the Fund and mentioned the policy of collaboration with all organizations at home and abroad which has been followed throughout the thirty-seven years of the Fund's existence. An address on “Scientific Aspects of Cancer Research” was delivered by Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, whose theme was the importance of laboratory effort in cancer research. Ho expressed his own faith that each increase in accommodation provided for skilled laboratory effort has never failed to be justified by its results. Sir Frederick described the distinguished past of the Fund and stated his confidence in a future of continued and eminent success. A vote of thanks to Sir Frederick was proposed by Sir Robert Hutchison, president of the Royal College of Physicians and seconded by Mr. Hugh Lett, president of the Royal College of Surgeons.
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Imperial Cancer Research Fund: New Laboratories. Nature 144, 16 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144016b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144016b0