When I received the invitation of the American Medical Association to be one of the guests of the Section on Diseases of Children, my first feelings were of pride at the great honor bestowed on me and my medical school. I would lief in my acknowledgments have placed my alma mater first, for I am quite confident that any claim I may have to be entertained by you is wholly due to the source of my education. Though Glasgow is not considered, at least by its visitors, a pleasant place for the habitation of man, yet it is, perhaps chiefly if not entirely for that very reason, an ideal home for a school of medicine. Glasgow, as you know, is a veritable beehive of industry, and thus unfortunately possesses all the qualifications for engendering disease. Within a comparatively small area there is a population of a most heteregeneous nature of