While it is true that all the new buildings are magnificent, and that each will All a place in the service of the sick and the injured,—the Neurological Institute stands a tittle apart from the rest in the nature of iis work. As an outstanding centre] for the study and treatment of di eases of the nervous system, the I stitute will serve humanity as whole rather than the locality in which it is situated, and will draw its patients from all" parts of thr world. affiliated with McGill Univer. tity Medical School and the Royal Victoria Hospital, and was built with the aid of funds provided by the Rockefeller Foundation, a group of the wealthy governors of. McGill University, and this city and province The inspiration was provided by Dr. Wilder Penfield, the Director of the Institute, who came to this city sever- 1 years ago to head the department of neurological studies in the MeGil) Medical School. A man of the high.
ideals, and of lovable personality, he has gathered around him a splen-Gid band of workers in the new. and dificult feld of surgery. Bos. pital records since the coming *o Montreal of Dr. Penfold and his able So far as the London sections were concerned, he said, bookings were already much brisker than a year ago, while the space applied for to date was greater than the whole amount for last year. Referring to the alteration in the date of the Birmingham section of the Fair from February to May, Colonel Colville described it asia courageous step, and said his Department would ¢o-operate in every possible way to make the change a success. Last year buyers came to the British Industries Fair from 73 dif ferent countries, from Iceland. to the Antipodes.' It was a great achievement to attract buyers such a scale, and he had no reason to believe that the coming year would see any diminution in "the number of countries represented at the Fair.
Colonel Colville added that it had been decided to participate in the Universal International Exhibition to be held at Brussels next year. In addition to Britain and "Belgium, eighteen principal countries are to bbe represented, assistant, Dr. William Cone, show an amazing' number of successes in the removal, of rumours from the spinal cord and the brain. These surgeons and their associates in other parts of the world have converted what was formerly a lost-hope undertaking Into at least "an equalization of cchanees in the Aight.
The architecture and equipment the Neurological Institute are in keeping with the calibre of the men who direct it; they are of the best, A. real attempt has been made to com. bine artistic design with modern engineering, and the planning and construction are a tribute to Cana dian skill and workmanship. Tt was tone of the stipulations of the Gove tors that all the materials and work= manship be of the best quality avallable, and that where possible materi-Gls should be of Canadian origin and manufacture, It was also provided 'n the contract that a minimum wage "labour in the various trades, employed be set and adhered Oughout the period of construction, Perhaps the spirit of the whole un-Gertaking can best be caught by a careful look at a stone tablet on the southwest corner of the building at the level of the second floor, The sublet is done from a drawing by Dr. Penfield, and reads "Dedicated to lief of sickness and pain, and to the study of Neurology.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.