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Hitherto exclusively used. The work, which had been com¬ 
menced in Glasgow, was transferred to Edinburgh in 1869, Lister 
in that year succeeding his father-in-law, Professor Syme, in the 
chair of clinical surgery in the university of the last-named city. 
In 1877 an opening was made for him at King’s College, London, 
and lie consented to< go there as professor of clinical surgery, a 
post which he held until 1893, by which time his work was prac¬ 
tically done, and the splendid service which he had rendered to 
mankind could no longer be questioned or concealed. The honors 
that awaited him were, perhaps, of little importance compared to 
his high services, but they were never more justly bestowed. On 
Mr. Gladstone’s recommendation he was, in 1883, made a baro¬ 
net, and in 1897 he was raised to the peerage. In 1902- lie was 
appointed a member of the newly instituted Order of Merit, as 
well as a privy councillor. From 1895 to 1900 he was president 
of the Royal Society. He was sergeant-surgeon to Queen Vic¬ 
toria and to King Edward, and has been president of the British 
Association for the Advancement of Science. His other scientific 
distinctions would require more than a column for their mere 
enumeration. 
Lady Lister., to whom he was devotedly attached, died in 
Italy in 1893, and he leaves no heir.— (Veterinary Nezvs.) 
C. W. JOHNSON, D.V.S. 
Dr. C. W. Johnson was born at Elburn, Ill., in 1855 an ^ 
spent the early part of his life on a farm, later becoming a student 
of pharmacy and subsequently a practicing pharmacist. In 1885 
he began the study of veterinary medicine at the Chicago Veter¬ 
inary College, receiving the degree of D.V.S. in 1887. Dr. John¬ 
son practiced for a time in northern Illinois, when he entered the 
service of the Bureau of Animal Industry in which he continued 
for ten years, serving in Omaha and Chicago. When the army 
was reorganized after the Spanish-American War, Dr. Johnson 
was transferred from the Bureau of Animal Industry to the 
Subsistence Department of the Army, where he continued, doing 
duty at Chicago almost exclusively, until the time of his death 
December 29, 1911, serving the Government in all about twenty 
years, during which time he gained an enviable reputation as an 
inspector; capable, exacting, careful. About eight or nine months 
prior to his death, his failing health becoming apparent, he was 
