B.M.A. Fund for Research in Australia

Abstract

A CORRESPONDENT in Melbourne writes: “Readers of NATURE may be interested to know that the British Medical Association meeting in Melbourne in September last wound up with a surplus of about £1,500. This has been offered to, and gratefully accepted by, the University of Melbourne as the nucleus of a special fund for medical research. We have in Melbourne two excellent medical research organisations, namely, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Baker Institute at the Alfred Hospital. But some of us feel that we want a fund which can be devoted to the aid of someone recommended for a particular piece of work terminable when the work is finished. The members of the permanent staff of these institutes have a good deal of routine work to do?essential and valuable?but here and there someone is found who wants to extend the boundaries of knowledge and wants help and guidance. Hence this fund, of which we are somewhat proud, as Congresses do not generally end with a credit balance. The senior medical men worked hard and organised excellently.”