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AT last Thursday's meeting of the Royal Society, the following words of congratulation were addressed to Lord Lister, the President, by Sir John Evans:—“As Treasurer and as one of the older of the Fellows of this Society, I beg to offer you on their behalf and my own our most hearty congratulations on the high yet well-merited honour that Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to confer upon you by elevating you to the Peerage. We have great satisfaction in feeling that, while this distinction is a fitting recognition of the value of your life-long labours in invoking the aid of science to the relief of suffering humanity, it comes at a time when this Society has the honour and pleasure of looking up to you as its President. If anything could add to that satisfaction, it is the fact that with your new dignity you are still able to retain the name of Lister, for the name of Lister among the inhabitants of all the civilised countries of the globe, ‘is familiar in their mouths as household words.’”