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British Medical Association.?The Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association is always an event of importance to the profession in the city selected for its meeting place. To make it a success is a matter of organisation chiefly. Other factors contributing to the success?the reputation of the medical school and its leaders, the warmth of the hospitality of the citizens, the piquancy of the questions discussed, even the weather?are all more or less subsidiary. The ninetieth annual meeting, from the numerical point of view, ranks seventh highest in the history of the Association. When we consider the expense of travelling in these days, the exigencies of practice, and the attractions of the increasing number of