Letter from Joseph Lister, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine, 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place, to the President and Council of the Royal Society Draws attention to an enclosed document relating to Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, President of the Board of Trade and his decision to refuse a grant of application from the British Institute of Preventive Medicine's application 'to be registered as a Limited Liability Company with the omission of the word Limited'. Includes a typescript document with a list of members of the Executive Committee, regarding a meeting under the Presidency of Sir James Whitehead 'then Mayor of London, "for the purpose of hearing statements from Sir James Paget and other representatives of scientific and medical opinion with regard to the recent increase of rabies in this country, and the efficacy of the treatment discovered by M Pasteur for the prevention of hydrophobia"'. 26 May 1891