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consciousness. Left with eight young children, Mrs. Mackenzie
removed to George Lane, Woodford, to the house recently
demolished known as Frithmans, in the garden of which is the
Maiden Hair Tree, and here she set up a school. At the age
of 16, by the influence of Mr. Nicholas Charrington, a situation
was found for Morell at the Union Assurance Co. An aunt
advanced him money which enabled him to give up clerking and
enter himself as a student at the London Hospital College. He
graduated M.B. 1861 and M.D. in 1862. A visit to Germany
led to his specialising on the throat and he founded the Hospital
for Diseases of the Throat. On 18 May, 1887, he was sum-
moned to Berlin to examine the throat of the Crown Prince of
Germany. Mackenzie operated more than once in face of the
opposition of German doctors. Bitter attacks were made upon
him, both before and after the Emperor's death, and his defence,
contained in his book, "Frederick the Noble," did nothing to
allay the storm. Mackenzie returned to England, a broken
man, to a diminished practice and died on 3 February, 1892, in
his 55th year, and is buried in Wargrave churchyard.
REMINISCENCES OF LORD LISTER.
By GULIELMA LISTER, F.L.S.
On the occasion of the Lister Centenary Celebration, held six years
ago, the following notes were compiled as the result of a request for some
personal reminiscences of Lord Lister from a member of his family. Slight
as they are, they have not been published in any way. I, therefore, will-
ingly accede to the request of our Honorary Editor that they should
appear in the Essex Naturalist as a sort of annex to Mr. Barns' valuable
paper on "Some Essex Doctors."
G. L.
MY earliest remembrance of our uncle Joseph Lister is
associated with the visits he and his wife used to pay
us when they came south from Scotland for the Christmas and
Easter holidays. To us children they were a perfect uncle and
aunt. My uncle was like a boy among us at the big family
gatherings, throwing himself with wholehearted enjoyment into
all the games, however childish, that we played. We knew,
too, how these visits were prized by our parents. My uncle
and father always kept in close touch by correspondence and,
when they met, the difficulties, experiments, failures and
successes connected with his work would be discussed between