To the Editor: —In a recent circular, evidently sent to a large number of physicians, Dr. L. Duncan Bulkley has invited those interested in the treatment of cancer by purely medicinal and dietetic measures to join him at the San Francisco session of the American Medical Association, in forming a society to promote these methods. The injury that will be done to the public by the spread of such doctrines needs no emphasis; and this attempt to give such methods an apparently scientific regularization and basis should meet with the same decisive opposition as would other forms of cancer quackery. In order that there may be no misconception as to the position of the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital in this matter, I have been directed by the Medical Board to send you this communication and the following resolution: The Medical Board of the New York Skin and Cancer