On serpent-worship and on the venomous snakes of India / by Sir Joseph Fayrer.

  • Joseph Fayrer
Date:
1892?]
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Credit: On serpent-worship and on the venomous snakes of India / by Sir Joseph Fayrer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Excerpt from Vol. XXV., Part I., 1904, of the Journal of The Sanitary Institute.] OBITL^AEY. Ifielb^flDarsbal Me IRo^al Ibiobnese (Bcoi'oc TOilliam Jfrebciicb Cbavlc6 2)ube of (Tambiibge, ]£arl of ^lipperar^, anb Baron CuUoben. By sir JOSEPH FAYRER, Bart., K.C.S.I., LL.D., M.D., F.R.S. (V ice-President.) ri'^IIE announcement of the Duke of Cambridge’s death on the 17th of X March, 1904, was received with the greatest regret by the com- munity generally, as well as by the public institutions over which he presided or with which he was connected, and which had benefited by his great experience and practical common sense, his cordial sympathy and his valuable co-operation. By none, probably, was the sad event more deplox’ed than by The Sanitary Institute, of which, at the time of his death. His Royal Highness was the venerated and greatly respected President. It is in association with the affairs of this Institute that we now refer to the late lamented Royal Duke, the catholicity of whose sympathy with the Army of which for forty years he was the head (as well as with numerous charitable, beneficent, and other public bodies in which he took the greatest interest, and on whose behalf he exercised the influence of his generous, kindly, and philanthropic nature as well as that arising out of his exalted position) has been fully and gratefully acknow- ledged in the various obituary notices which have already appeared. It is, however, becoming that The Sanitary Institute, for which the Duke did so much, should place on record a separate notice of His Royal High- ness’s services on its behalf. The Duke of Cambridge became a member of the Parkes Museum in July, 1883, when the Duke of Albany was President. On the incor- poration of the Museum with The Sanitary Institute in 1888 he joined