THE CAREER OF RAMÓN Y CAJAL

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DON SANTIAGO RAMÓN Y CAJAL It has been said many a time that the problem of Spain is a problem of culture. It is necessary in fact, if we would enroll ourselves with the civilized peoples, that we cultivate intensively the deserts of our land and brain thus rescuing by prosperity and mental vigor all those national riches that have been lost in the sea and all those talents which have been lost in ignorance. These words were scrawled in Spanish across the portrait of Ramón y Cajal. I had been conscious of keen eyes looking down from out that portrait during my first day of work in the laboratory of Pio del Rio-Hortega, and finally stopped to decipher the scrawl. Before coming to Spain I had learned much of the scientist Cajal, the great master of the Spanish school of neurology, from his scientific publications. But the writer

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