Presidential Addresses of this Institute have covered a variety of subjects. Some medical Presidents have spoken on their specialized subjects, whilst others have spoken about the Institute in its 30, 70 and now 90 years of life and growth. The British Institute of Radiology (BIR), unlike most national societies of radiology, is a multi-disciplinary society; scientists, industrialists, physicists, radiobiologists, radiographers, ultrasonagraphers, nuclear medicine specialists, as well as radiotherapists and diagnostic radiologists, are all members of the BIR. My predecessor, in his Presidential Address (Berry, 1987), took us through the 90 years of the Institute's life, and reminded us that after X rays were discovered in November 1895, a special commission was set up under Dr Sydney Rowland to report on “the application of the new photography to medicine and surgery”. Whilst covering the last 90 years, Professor Berry mentioned that “the pattern and materials of radiological endeavour have changed almost beyond recognition, but that the strength of the Institute is in its diversity and our future is in our enthusiasm”. Who could have foreseen the tech
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