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WE are reminded that the new laboratories of Physiology and Pathology, which University College, Liverpool, owes to the generosity of the Rev. S. A. Thompson Yates, will be opened on October 8 by Lord Lister, President of the Royal Society. By his benefaction, Mr. Thompson Yates has strengthened the medical school of the College in a very marked degree, and has enabled the professors of physiology and pathology to take advantage of the most recent additions to our knowledge in their lectures and laboratory instruction. Lord Lister will be accompanied on the occasion by a large and distinguished party. The Lord Mayor will represent the city; Earl Spencer, Chancellor of the Victoria University, has promised to attend and admit Lord Lister to the degree of D.Sc. conferred on him by the Victoria University; Lord Derby, President of the College, will be present, with the authorities of the Victoria University and its Colleges. Among those who have accepted the invitation of the College Council may be mentioned: the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Derby, Lord Spencer, Lord Ripon, Lord Kelvin, Mr. A. J; Balfour, Prof. Michael Foster and Prof. Rücker (the Secretaries of the Royal Society), Prof. Virchow, Sir Douglas Galton, Sir Samuel Wilks, Sir Richard Thorne, the Bishops of Liverpool, Chester, Carlisle, and Ripon, Sir William Gairdner, Mr. Justice Kennedy, Sir James Crichton Browne, Dr. Lauder Brunton, Sir Archibald Geikie, Captain Abney, C.B., Sir George King, Mr. Thiselton-Dyer, Prof. Ramsay, Prof. David Ferrier, Dr. Pavy, Mr. R. B. Haldane, Sir John Batty Tuke, Sir Henry Littlejohn, Prof. Schäfer, Prof. Burdon-Sanderson, Prof. Kanthack, Prof. Halliburton, Prof. Meldola, Prof. Poulton, the Dean of Lichfield, Prof. Charlton Bastian, the Hon. Sydney Holland, Prof. Rose Bradford, Prof. Forsyth, Prof. Bower, Dr. Alexander Cope, Prof. Crookshank, Prof. Waller, Prof. Noël Paton, Dr. Ludwig Mond, Dr. Mott, Prof. Stirling, Prof. Liveing, Mr. Gerald Yeo, Prof. Macallum, and Dr. Byrom Bramwell. The proceedings will commence with the degree ceremony, which will take place in St. George's Hall at 3 O'clock. Lord Lister will then, with the President, Earl Derby, proceed to open the new laboratories. In the evening a banquet will be given by the Lord Mayor in the City Hall.
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Notes. Nature 58, 512–515 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058512a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/058512a0