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Pasteur, there were now four vacancies in the list of the Honorary 

 Members. The Council therefore recommended the four following 

 gentlemen for election as Honorary Members at the next meeting : — 



Sir Joseph Lister, Bart., P. R. S., Surgeon Extraordinary to the 

 Queen, Professor of Clinical Surgery in King's College, London, is the 

 author of numerous papers on Surgical Pathology and Histology, but is 

 celebrated, before all, as the great originator and exponent of the An- 

 tiseptic System of Surgery, a system that has not only revolutionized 

 surgery and reformed Hospital Hygiene, but also has had a beneficial 

 influence on every other brai*ch of Medicine. 



In the history of the antiseptic reformation. Sir Joseph Lister was 

 the foremost to recognize, first, that septic changes in wounds are of the 

 nature of fermentations, and are due to the advent and multiplication 

 within wounds of organic germs ; and secondly, that these germs find 

 their surest and riiost favourable abode in places where the wounded are 

 improperly crowded together. 



The " antiseptic treatment " initiated by Sir Joseph Lister was 

 aimed more at the destruction of the germs in the neighbourhood of 

 any given wound ; but with the spread and acceptance of Listerian 

 principles the treatment became more and more directed towards remov- 

 ing the conditions under which the germs were found to exist, until 

 to-day the antiseptic treatment is not so much a matter of special 

 surgical technique as a matter of scrupulous sanitary cleanliness. But 

 the wide reforms in the care of the sick which this strict sanitary observ- 

 ance has brought about are the direct and obvious outcome of the origi- 

 nal antiseptic teaching of Sir Joseph Lister. 



Professor Michael FosteRj Secretary of the Royal Society, Professor 

 of Physiology in the University of Cambridge, is the author of numerous 

 papers on pure physiology as well as on histology, but is specially known 

 by his Text Book of Physiology, and for his influential labours in the 

 cause of scientific education at Cambridge University. 



The Text Book of Physiology is, practically, original work — original 

 in its treatment of the subject, and above all original in its wealth of 

 philosophical suggestion. It is not too much to say of the earlier 

 editions of that work that they have had a deep influence far beyond 

 the limits of their special field of education, and that their introductory 

 and few closing chapters, without departing from strictly physiological 

 ground, exhibit physiology at its highest level as a branch of learning. 



Professor F. Kielhorn Ph.D., CLE., now Professor of Sanskrit in 

 the University of Gottingen in Germany, formerly Professor of Oriental 

 Languages in the Deccan College in British India. He is equally 

 distinguished by his intimate knowledge of Sanskrit Grammar and of 



