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'NATURE 



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burgh, attended by representatives of the Corporation, 

 the University, the Royal Colleges of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, and the Edinburgh and Leith Medical 

 Practitioners' Association. 



Messages of Sympathy and Respect. 



Expressions of sympathy and resolutions embody- 

 ing appreciation for the work accomplished by Lord 

 Lister have been received by his family and by the 

 Royal Society from all parts of the civilised world. 

 Last week we referred to messages from the King, 

 Queen Alexandra, and other members of the Royal 

 Family, and to the telegram from the Institut Pasteur. 

 We print below a selection, based chiefly upon reports 

 in The Times, of the tributes which have been paid 

 by foreign rulers and Governments and by learned 

 societies everywhere, to the character and work of 

 Lord Lister. 



So large a number of messages of condolence and 

 tributes to the memory of Lord Lister have been 

 received by his family that some delay in sending 

 individual replies is inevitable, and it is therefore 

 desired to convey through the medium of the Press 

 their grateful acknowledgment of the sympathy which 

 has been so generally expressed. 



The King's message, already referred to, stated that 

 his Majesty shares in the feeling that the loss suffered 

 is a universal one, for the world at large owes a debt 

 of gratitude to Lord Lister's memory for all that he 

 achieved to save life and to mitigate human suffering. 



The following- letter was received from the German 

 Ambassador : — 



By order of his Imperial Majesty the German Emperor, 

 who knew the late Lord Lister personally, I will have the 

 honour to lay a wreath on the resting-place of the great 

 savant. 



Will you further kindly inform the late Lord Lister's 

 relatives that, acting under instructions from my Govern- 

 ment, I have conveyed, through the Foreign OtHce, to the 

 societies of which Lord Lister was president, the sorrow of 

 the Imperial Chancellor and the Royal Prussian Govern- 

 ment ? 



A telegram was received by Sir Archibald Geikie, 

 K.C.B., president of the Royal Society, from the 

 Marquis di San Giuliano, the Italian Minister for 

 Foreign Affairs, as follows : — 



I beg you to express to the Royal Society the con- 

 dolences of his Majesty's Government on the death of 

 Lord Lister, whose name will live in perpetual veneration 

 in the grateful memory of mankind. I associate myself 

 personally with the Royal Society's mourning, being 

 attached to that illustrious body by many touching recollec- 

 tions, both of my own references to Italy at more than one 

 of their annual reunions and of eloquent tributes paid 

 by their most eminent speak' i-, lo the scientific glories of 

 our country. 



.\t the meeting of the Royal Society on Thursday 

 last, February 15, the President (Sir Archibald Geikie) 

 referred to the signal loss sustained by the society 

 and by the scientific world at home and abroad by 

 the decease of Lord Lister, in whom the society had 

 a special interest as a past president. It was moved 

 froin the chair, and resolved by the fellows present 

 rising in their places, that the condolence of the 

 society be sent to the family of Lord Lister, and that 

 the society do adjourn without transacting the busi- 

 ness of the meeting, as a mark of respect to his 

 memory. 



The Royal Society has received the following tele- 

 grams bf sympathy from foreign acaden>ies and 

 departments of State : — 



Germany. 



The Prussian Department of Public Instruction mourns 

 in sincerest sympathy with the Royal Society the grievous 



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loss which science has experienced by the decease of their 

 former president, the great master of surgery, Lord Lister. 

 — VoN Trott zu Solz, Prussian Minister of Instruction. 



The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences send to the 

 Royal Society their heartfelt sympathy in the heavy loss 

 which the society has sustained by the death of their 

 former president. We condole sincerely with you on the 

 decease of Lord Lister as a true benefactor of mankind, 

 whose memory will remain in imperishable honour among 

 all nations. — Presiding Secretary, Auwers. 



Royal Saxon Society of Sciences, Leipzig, deeply moved 

 by Lister's death, sends warmest sympathy. (No dele- 

 gates.) (Unsigned.) 



Medical Society, Leipzig, sincerely laments their dis- 

 tinguished honorary and foreign member. Personal repre- 

 sentation unfortunately impossible. — Marciiand. 



On the occasion of the severe loss which medical science 

 has suffered by the decease of Lord Lister, the League 

 of German Clinics herewith gives expression to their most 

 sincere sympathy. — Wessel, President, Leipzig. 



The Medical Faculty of the University of Munich 

 mourns with you at the bier of Lord Lister, one of the 

 greatest benefactors of mankind. It will always be a glory 

 of Great Britain that she has brought forth this son. — 

 M. Gruber, Dean. 



The Royal Bavarian .\cademy of Sciences regrets that 

 during the University term none of its members is able to 

 take part in the obsequies of England's great son, Lord 

 Lister, but it is at one with the whole civilised world in 

 its grief at the demise of one of the greatest benefactors 

 of mankind whose benevolent life-work can never be lost. 

 — Hkifel, President. 



Russia. 



Imperial .Aratiemy of Medicine, St. Petersburg, semis its 

 sincerest condolences to the Royal Society on the death 

 of Lord Lister, whose loss has saddened not only England, 

 but the whole medical world. — Moisseeff, Secretary of 

 the Academy. 



Imperial .\cademy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, begs Sir 

 .Archibald Geikie as honorary member to represent the 

 academy at the funeral of Lord Lister. — Oldenburg, 

 Perpetual Secretary. 



Austria-U unwary . 



Imperial Aradmiy of Sciences, Vienna, profoundly 

 deplores the draih of the great surgeon and benefactor of 

 the sick, Lord Lister, whom they were proud to count 

 among their honorary and foreign members, and express 

 their sincere sympathy with the Royal Society in their 

 loss. — President Boehmbawerk, Becke. 



The Hungarian Academy, Budapest. — The Hungarian 

 -Academy of Sciences sends its deepest condolence to the 

 funeral of its great member, Lord Lister. — Berzeviuzy, 

 President. 



Oilier Countries. 



.Academy of S< irm. s, I'aris. — .'\cademy will send to the 

 obsequies of Li>t' 1 , l.ippmann (presidmi ), (hauveau, 

 Dastre, Roux. Ai ni. iting of the .\(Mi1. in\ on Feb- 

 ruary 12, -M. l.ippmann made fitting r>lii.nrr lo Lord 

 Lister's life and work. 



(.A telegram from the Pasteur Institute was published in 

 Nature last week.) 



I join your illustrious society on behalf of the University 

 of the Italian Scientific Institute and with my own personal 

 condolences at the irreparable loss of Lord Lister, to whom 

 science and humanity owes so much. — Minlster of Public 

 Instruction. 



.Accademia dei Lincei, Rome. — The .Accademia dei Lincei 

 deplores the loss of their illustrious member. Lord Lister, 

 and begs to bo allowed to be represented at tlie funeral by 

 their member, Sir Joseph Larmor. — Blaserna, President. 



Christiania University. — The Medical Faculty of 

 Christiania University expresses syinpathy to the Royal 

 Society in the great loss sustained by the British medical 

 profession and the whole science of medicine by the death 

 of the father of modern surgery, Lord Lister. — Decanis 

 Harbitz. 



Christiania Scientific Society thanks for kind telegram 

 regarding Lord Lister, and regrets sincerely with the Royal 



