Abstract
My first and most pleasant duty is to thank the American Medical Association, and especially its Section on Ophthalmology, for the very great compliment that the Council on Scientific Assembly has paid me in inviting me to be present on this occasion. I regard it as one of the greatest honors that have been paid to me during my ophthalmologic life, and my only regret is for the inadequate way in which I can show my gratitude. The choice of a subject for an address has been a matter of great difficulty to me. Of recent years a good deal of my time has, of necessity, been given up to work with no definite scientific bearing ; routine work connected with the councils and committees of various kinds which falls to one's lot as one gets older. Many of those who are somewhat senior know how this type of

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