The position of pathology among biological studies

It is now nearly ten years since this illustrious Society conferred on me the unexpected honour of electing me one of its Foreign Members. Not only so, but last autumn it held me worthy of a further honour, in awarding me the Copley Medal,—a sign of the highest recognition of my work, the significance of which far exceeds the distinctions which the passing favour of political powers is accustomed to bestow.