PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
HERTFORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
Ordinary Meeting, 16 th October, 1889, at St. Albans. 
E. M. Campbell, Esq., E.L.S., E.Z.S., etc., Yice-President, in 
the Chair. 
Mr. William Harford, The Manor House, Bushey, Watford; 
Mr. E. 0. Kitton, Hillside, St. Albans; Mrs. Quincey Lane, 
Berkhamsted ; the Yenerable Archdeacon Lawrance, M.A., The 
Bectory, St. Albans ; Mr. Bichard Lydekker, B.A., E Gr.S., The 
Lodge, Harpenden; Mr. Edward H. Horman, Moor Place, Much 
Hadham; Mr. J. G. E. Sibbald, 3 Townshend Yillas, Bichmond, 
Surrey; and Mr. J. Woolsey Spackman, The Daltons, St. Albans, 
were proposed for membership of the Society. 
A lecture was delivered of which the following is a somewhat 
abridged report:— 
“ Babies and the Pasteur Institute.” By John Evans, D.C.L., 
LL.D., Treas. B.S., Pres. S.A., E.L.S., etc. 
Dr. Evans said that, having been asked to give the opening 
lecture of the session, he had selected this subject of Babies and 
the Pasteur Institute, 1 st, because it was, he believed, a matter of 
general interest, touching as it did upon the disease of hydrophobia 
and its cure, and 2nd, because he had recently visited and inspected 
the Institute in Paris. He had also had the advantage of hearing 
a lecture before the Boyal Society upon the subject, delivered by 
an assistant of M. Pasteur himself. Since then the matter had 
attracted very considerable interest. Sir Henry Boscoe had made 
it the subject of an address at the Midland Institute, and there 
had been a considerable number of magazine articles published 
upon it. It had been suggested that this might be more a medical 
than a natural history topic, but it appeared to him that anything 
which referred to organisms, even of the low forms which he should 
have to mention, was not out of place. Of course the subject was 
closely connected with many animals, and particularly with the 
best and most intelligent of our domestic animals, the dog; but it 
did not seem to him necessary that they should discuss the disease 
of hydrophobia at all. 
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