To the Editor:— InThe Journal, March 18, appears an editorial entitled "Andreas Vesalius and Harvey Cushing: Tradition and Inspiration," from which I quote the following extract and which I believe, because the Association itself is approaching its centennial, is timely and worth repeating. Many of the greatest medical men have been historically minded. American activity in the history of medicine compares well with similar scholarship elsewhere. An enthusiastic group of physicians have supported it with both international and local studies, receiving loyal aid from capable bibliographers and collectors of medical literature. Nor should those publishers be forgotten who, time and time again, took risks in order to stand by the traditions which history and biography try to maintain. The American Medical Association has no section devoted to medical history, as does the Canadian Medical Association and the British. When the American and Canadian associations held their joint session as