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![[Reprinted from The Journal of Nervous and *•] Mental Disease, Vol. 38, 1 PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS1 By Henry H. Donaldson THE WISTAR INSTITUTE Your honorable council, in its wisdom, has decreed that the retiring president should deliver an address. I leave it to the council to explain. The decree however gives me the oppor- tunity to thank you for the honor which has been intrusted to me during the past year. This honor now passes to more worthy hands and my sincere good wishes go with it. During these past months I have often wondered how such neurological work as is not clinical, not even pathological, might be made to support the endeavor for which this society stands; the endeavor to bring forward our knowledge in clinical neurology and thus to contribute to the control and prevention of the diseases of the nervous system. To assist in making plain the bearing of such work, I can follow no other than the simple well-worn way which leads to an explanation—an apologia the theologians called it—of some of those things which a group of us are laboring to do. With then the hope of bringing the laboratory work on the normal nervous system nearer to the special work of this society, I venture to present a running account of several studies on the growth of the nervous system as carried on by my associates and myself during the past few years. What I have to say bears the title “ Studies on the Growth of the Mammalian Nervous System.” ‘Read before the Philadelphia Neurological Society, January, 1911.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22418660_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
