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 DEDICATED BY PERMISSION . . . 



TO THE 



RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD LISTER, O.M., 



LL.D., D.C.L.. F.R.S., Etc.. 



IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE 



POWERFUL INFLUENCE WHICH HE EXERCISED OVER THE 



INTELLECTUAL CULTURE OF HIS GLASGOW STUDENTS, OF WHOM 



THE AUTHOR WAS ONE. 



