The third Annual Report of the National Radium Trust and Radium Commission, recently published (October 1932), forms an interesting record of the development of radium centres already existing throughout this country, and the initiation of certain new centres. The report of the National Radium Trust dealing with the purely financial aspects will be of considerable interest in showing how purchases of radium have progressed. The report of the Radium Commission shows that the year's work has been concentrated largely on the development of the national radium centres and so-called regional radium centres, the latter being situated in Nottingham, Norwich, Southampton, Plymouth and Stoke-on-Trent. These centres are not associated, as are the national centres, with recognised medical schools, yet have promised to carry out the national radium policy with the same efficiency and co-operation as the national centres. Moreover, they are not as yet in working order, but it is hoped that they will be in the near future. The Commission maintains a policy which will undoubtedly be endorsed by those having accurate knowledge of the present state of radium therapy: that the indiscriminate wide-spread distribution of radium is undesirable. The possession of a scalpel is not the sole condition of success for a surgeon, nor is the proximity of a small amount of radium the sole condition for the success of radium therapy.