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THE thirteenth report of the British Empire Cancer Campaign was dealt with in NATURE of December 12. We have now received the thirty-fourth annual report of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. The Fund began in 1902, and its activities have been in the main devoted to the experimental study of cancer in its own laboratories; besides being one of the first, it has earned its position as one of the leading organizations for the study of malignant disease, and the high quality of the work done under its first two directors, Dr. E. F. Bashford and Dr. J. A. Murray, has been generally recognized. The Fund is under the direction of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, and it has until now been housed in their Examination Halls on the Embankment and in Queen Square, London; more room is now needed, and a new building is to be put up at Mill Hill with plenty of spare land leased from the Medical Research Council. When the cause and cure of cancer have been ascertained, the Royal Colleges will have the duty of diverting the endowment to some other line of medical research; meanwhile, there is no reason for supposing that the new director, Dr. W. E. Gye, and his assistants will not have their hands full with the multiplicity of work in various directions into which modern cancer research has developed.
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The Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Nature 138, 1085 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381085a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1381085a0