The key-note of the Oxford Medical Publications has always been the practical character of the treatment. The popular Medical Manuals, Monographs, and the ‘General Practitioner Series’ have now a world-wide reputation, and include a large number of standard works, such as _Diseases of the Heart_, and _Principles of Diagnosis and Treatment in Heart Affections_ by Sir James Mackenzie, _A System of Operative Surgery_ by F. F. Burghard, C.B., _Common Disorders and Diseases of Childhood_ by G. F. Still, _Practical Obstetrics_ by Professor E. Hastings Tweedy, _Guide to Gynaecology in General Practice_ by Comyns Berkeley and Victor Bonney, _The Practitioner’s Encyclopaedia of Medical Treatment_, _The Practitioner’s Encyclopaedia of Medicine and Surgery_. By the acquisition in 1908 of Mr. Young J. Pentland’s business, leading Text-books by the most eminent Scottish authors were incorporated, including such well-known books as Cunningham’s _Text-book of Anatomy_ and _Manual of Practical Anatomy_, Muir and Ritchie’s _Manual of Bacteriology_, Thomson and Miles’s _Manual of Surgery_, Waring’s _Manual of Operative Surgery_, Thomson’s _Outlines of Zoology_. The Oxford Medical Publications were awarded the Grand Prix at the seventeenth International Congress of Medicine held in London in 1913. This award was bestowed for the general excellence of the Students’ books produced in the Series, and for the production of new and original work therein. In 1916 the Committee sustained a great loss in the death of their Editor, James Keogh Murphy. A further heavy loss was sustained at the end of 1919 by the death of Sir William Osler, whose advice and assistance had always been of inestimable value. After the death of Mr. Murphy, the Editorship was temporarily undertaken by Lieut.-Colonel Sir D’Arcy Power, who was responsible for several important additions to the Series, including the well-known _Oxford War Primers of Medicine and Surgery_. Towards the close of hostilities Captain Robert McNair Wilson, M.B., Ch.B., late Assistant to Sir James Mackenzie under the Medical Research Committee, became Editor, and under his direction further important additions have been made, including _Menders of the Maimed_ by Professor Arthur Keith, _Studies in Neurology_ by Henry Head, _Operative Treatment of Chronic Intestinal Stasis_ by Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, _Diagnosis and Treatment of Venereal Diseases in General Practice_ by Brevet-Colonel L. W. Harrison, D.S.O., _Plastic Surgery of the Face_ by Major H. D. Gillies, C.B.E., R.A.M.C., _War Neuroses and Shell Shock_ by Sir Frederick Mott, K.B.E., _Trench Fever_ by Lieut.-Colonel W. Byam, O.B.E., _Clinical Ophthalmology for the General Practitioner_ by A. Maitland Ramsay, and _Tropical Ophthalmology_ by Lieut.-Colonel R. H. Elliot, I.M.S. The present Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, Sir Archibald Garrod, is a Delegate of the Press and an Oxford author.