A note on the Liverpool Medical Institution.

DURING this Congress tribute has been paid to many of the men whose names are honoured in the medical history of Liverpool. To these must be added from the war memorial in the entrance hall, the name of Noel Godfrey Chavasse V.C. and bar, one of three men ever to win this double decoration. After Chavasse's death in 1917, the King said that the whole army would mourn the loss of so brave a brother; the MajorGeneral told how the entire battalion, smothered in mud and dropping with exhaustion paraded at his funeral; and a private soldier wrote that he was the bravest man in the world. Since the year 1837, about a month before the accession of Queen Victoria, all these men have known the Institution, have spoken in its theatre, and have used its facilities and library. If it is true that Liverpool has made a worthwhile contribution to medical progress, it must be due in part to the exceptional, perhaps unique facilities provided by its Medical Institution. The building is mainly due to the vision and energy of John Rutter, whose portrait adorns the lecture theatre. Who painted the portrait and why, is not known; possibly it was a local artist, Alexander Mosses. Rutter was a Quaker, a bachelor, and a man of simple and sober appearance. Of all the pictures in the Institution none looks less the fashionable physician. In 1837, at the age of seventy-five, he presided at the opening ceremony. He died in the following year, 1838, and was buried in anunmarked grave in the burial ground of the Society of Friends, and a tablet was erected to his memory in St. Peter's Church. All that remains of the church is the name Church Street in the heart of modern Liverpool, but when it was demolished in 1921 the memorial tablet was transferred and re-erected in the entrance hall of the Institution. Professor Strong translated it from the Latin as follows: