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oculated is 16 ; the percentage of the deaths of those 

 treated by Pasteur is 1. 



It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to be 

 able to record here the recognition of the convincing 

 character of these results by a large and influential 

 body of representative Englishmen. The Lord Mayor, 

 Sir James Whitehead, kindly undertook, at my urgent 

 request, to visit the Pasteur Institute when he was 

 in Paris in May 1889. What he saw made so favour- 

 able an impression that he readily undertook, on 

 his return, to do something to show the gratitude of 

 the people of this country towards M. Pasteur, by 

 whom 250 British subjects had already been treated, 

 and he consented to call a meeting at the Mansion 

 House if I would endeavour to secure the co-operation 

 of the leading members of the medical profession, of 

 the President and Council of the Eoyal Society, and 

 other representative men. The meeting, which was 

 held on 1st July, has been declared to be the most 

 influential w^hich ever assembled in the Mansion 

 House. iVmong those who were present were the 

 Duke of Northumberland, the Duke of Westminster, 

 Sir John Lubbock, M.P., Sir James Paget, Sir William 

 Bowman, Sir Spencer Wells, Sir Henry Eoscoe, Sir 

 Joseph Lister, Sir Trevor LawTcnce, M.P., Colonel Sir 

 Edmund Henderson, General Strachey, the Dean of 

 Manchester, Prebendary Harry Jones, the Vicar of 

 St. Pancras, the President and Council of the Eoyal 

 Society, and deputations from various medical societies 

 and from dog-fanciers' associations. The Prince of 

 Wales, Professor Huxley, Professor Tyndall, and the 



