An interesting ceremony was performed on Monday when the King
opened the new quarters of the British Medical Association in Tavistock Square. The Associa- tion is a great institution which exercises an increasing influence in our national life, and it is appropriate that ia worthy home has been found for it. Sir Edwin Lutyens' fine building seems in every way capable of performing the function of a General Headquarters for medicine. Both the King and the Chairman of the Council in their speeches referred to the broadening out of the activities of the medical profession, from the mere service of the individual in sickness to the general prevention and cure of disease for the nation as a whole. By a happy coincidence the ceremony took place just when the whole world v'as turning its attention to medical research with a new respect and with an unusual thrill of hope as the result of the announcements about the causation of cancer. In one of our leading articles we deal with those announcements.
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