A Surgical Tour in the United States and Canada

me to address their annual meeting in May last on the "Treatment of Cataract." I accepted. As all the State Medical Associations hold their annual meetings in May, June and July, they then arranged a tour for me over the various States to address them on some ophthalmic subject. At first I declined invitations to operate because I had not my own trained assistant with me nor would the cases be under my control after operation. I ^ consented, however, to operate at the Ohio meeting, as so many of the surgeons there had spent considerable periods with me in India. After my arrival in New York on the 24th of April, so much pressure was brought to bear on me by ophthalmic surgeons wishing to see the intracapsular operation that I agreed to operate at other places, so that is why so many of the clinics had to be raised on very short notice. On my arrival in New York I found everything ready for me including my time table. I spent on an average about two nights a week in the train, so I was kept quite busy. The hospitality I received was lavish and the reception I met with from every one was almost overwhelming from every point of view?personal, national and scientific. Though I was not in America on any official footing, the American War Office put