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a large black gibbon, with web fingers and 

 a large air-sac, or pouch, under the throat. 

 This specimen is in good health, and in zoolog- 

 ical collections it even surpasses the gorilla 

 in rarity. (5) A large and very fine specimen 

 of the Tcheli Monkey {Macacus tcheliensis), 

 of northern China, was also brought by Cap- 

 tain Golding. Its nearest relative is the 

 Japanese red-faced monkey. Like the latter, 

 it is a shaggy-haired and hardy animal. (6) 

 A fine adult specimen of the Great White 

 Heron (Herodias egretta), recently received 

 from Miami, Florida, is probably the only 

 captive representative of its species alive in 

 North America. It was acquired by purchase, 

 and reached the Park in perfect health. (7) 

 Two specimens of the so-called ' Giant Bear ' 

 of Corea have been purchased by cable of 

 Mr. Hagenbeck for one of the new bear dens, 

 and will be shipped to the park very shortly. 

 H. F. O. 



THE LISTER I\8TITUTE.* 

 In 1896, the centenary of Jenner's crucial 

 experiment in proof of the eificacy of vaccina- 

 tion, a movement was started at St. George's 

 Hospital to perpetuate his name by some 

 suitable national memorial. It was decided 

 that it should be associated with the then 

 newly-established British Institute of Pre- 

 ventive Medicine, the form which it was to 

 take being left to be determined by the Coun- 

 cil of the Institute, according to the amount 

 of money which might be raised. It was de- 

 termined that if this amount should be so 

 large as to place the funds of the Institute in 

 a thoroughly satisfactory position, the name 

 should be changed to the Jenner Institute; 

 if the sum proved to be considerable, but less 

 than enough for this purpose, it was to be ap- 

 plied to the endowment of a Jenner professor- 

 ship, while if a still smaller amount were 

 obtained it was to be devoted to founding a 

 Jenner scholarship. The sum actually raised 

 proved not more than adequate for the found- 

 ing of a scholarship, but the Council of the 

 Institute wishing to honor the pioneer of pre- 

 ventive medicine, resolved that the name of 

 * From the British Medical Journal. 



the institute should be changed. Afterwards, 

 however, it was found that there already ex- 

 isted in London a commercial firm trading 

 under the name of the Jenner Institute for 

 calf lymph, and that it had a prior claim to the 

 name of Jenner Institute. It was hoped, how- 

 ever, that as the Institute of Preventive Medi- 

 cine was not preparing calf lymph, and in fact 

 had agreed with the proprietor of the other 

 institute not to do so while it retained a 

 similar name, no confusion between the two 

 would arise. This hope, however, was falsi- 

 fied as the two institutes were frequently 

 supposed to be one and the same to the incon- 

 venience of both. The mistake acquired addi- 

 tional probability from the fact that the local 

 government board rented certain laboratories 

 in the Jenner Institute of Preventive Medicine 

 wherein the government staff prepared the 

 lymph issued to public vaccinators. The gov- 

 erning body, finding the inconvenience so great, 

 apart from the restriction mentioned above, 

 and all efforts to meet the difficulty having 

 failed, have determined again to change the 

 name of the institute. The Jenner memorial 

 committee has acquiesced with regret, and it 

 has been agreed that its contribution shall re- 

 main invested in a Jenner memorial student- 

 ship in the institute under its new name. The 

 governing body proposes that the institute 

 shall in future be called the Lister Institute 

 of Preventive Medicine. The name has, we 

 are informed, been chosen against Lord 

 Lister's own strong personal wish; but we be- 

 lieve that the profession and the public at 

 large will agree with the governing body in 

 thinking that no name could more appro- 

 priately be identified with the institute than 

 that of the founder of antiseptic surgery. 

 The proposed change has the approval of 

 Lord Iveagh, whose munificent endowment of 

 the institute was made just after the previous 

 change had been effected ; indeed, we are in- 

 formed that it is no secret that, had it not 

 been for that change. Lord Iveagh would then 

 have suggested that the British In.«titute 

 should be definitely associated with the name 

 of Lister, as the similar institute in Paris is 

 with the name of Pasteur. 



