PREFACE 
The Thompson Yates Laboratory Reports will be issued half-yearly, or 
oftener, if sufficient material is ready for publication. 
, They are intended to promote learning and record Research in the various 
branches of Physiology and Pathology, and thus to carry out the wishes of the 
Founders of these Schools. 
Two volumes are now published. The first volume contains the account of 
the opening of the Laboratories in October, 1898, by Lord Lister, P.R.S., who was 
accompanied on that occasion by Professor Virchow and a distinguished gathering 
ot Scientific and representative men. An address delivered before the Medical 
Students of University College by the Founder of the Laboratories, the Rev. 
Samuel Ashton Thompson Yates, will be also found in the first volume. 
In the second volume reports are given of the various departincnts which 
clearly indicate the numerous ways in which the University teaching in these schools 
is directly apphcable to the needs of the community, including the wide sphere of 
our Colonies, both as regards the prevention and cure of disease at home and abroad 
and the advancement of Commerce. 
Our best thanks are due to the Council of the Royal Society, to the Council of 
the Royal Medical Chirurgical Society's Transactions, and to the Editors of the 
' British Medical Journal,' ' Lancet,' ' Liverpool Medical Chirurgical Journal,' ' Brain,' 
'Journal of Physiology and of Pathology,' the Committee of the Liverpool School 
of Tropical Medicine, and the Lancashire Sea Fisheries, for kindly allowing us to 
reprint papers which have appeared in their journals. 
