belonged, he was a man of very liberal views and catholic sympathies. But the crowning grace of this beautiful character, though it might veil his rich gifts from those not intimate with him, was a most rare modesty and Christian humility.” JOSEPH LISTER was born in 1828, and took the B.A. degree at London University in 1847. Pursuing a course of medical study at University College, London, he gained the M.B. degree in 1852, being awarded gold medals in anatomy and in botany at the first M.B. examination, and the scholarship and gold medal in surgery at the final examination. He became Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1852, and took a similar qualification at Edinburgh in 1855. He married a daughter of Mr. Syme, then Professor of Surgery in the University of Edinburgh. Devoting himself to physiological research on matters having a wide bearing on practical medicine and surgery, Mr. Lister attained wide repute as an original investigator at a comparatively early age, and his position in physiology was assured by a series of papers which would suffice to make his career memorable, if he had never applied antiseptic measures to the treatment of disease. Beginning with some observations on the contractile tissue of the iris in 1853, he went on to study the muscular tissue of the skin, the flow of the lacteal fluid, and the minute structure of involuntary muscular fibre, on all of which subjects his papers are published in the “Journal of Microscopical Science.” In 1857 he commenced his series of contributions to the Royal Society, the first being on the functions of the visceral nerves, with special reference to the inhibitory system. This was further developed in “An Inquiry regarding the Parts of the Nervous System which regulate the Contractions of the Arteries” (Phil. Trans. 1858). But his two most important papers at this period are those on the Early Stages of Inflammation (1857), and on the Coagulation of the Blood, delivered as the Croonian Lecture for 1863. For some years Mr. Lister was a lecturer on surgery in the Edinburgh Extra-Academical School. He was afterwards elected Professor of Surgery in Glasgow University, and Surgeon to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.