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SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, who previously gave a negative answer to the request made by the Executive Committee of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine, having reconsidered his decision, has now granted the required license to register the Institution as a Limited Liability Company, with the omission of the word “Limited.” The license, however, is not to be construed as expressing approval by the President of the Board of Trade of experiments on animals, or in any way affecting the exercise by the Secretary of State of his discretionary powers grant a vivisection license to the proposed Institute. The articles of association have been signed, and the Institute is now duly registered. The following gentlemen have already expressed their willingness to serve on the Council: Sir Joseph Lister, Chairman, Sir Charles A. Cameron, Mr. Watson Cheyne, Prof. Michael Foster, Prof. Greenfield, Prof. Victor Horsley, Sir William Roberts, Sir Henry Roscoe, Prof. Roy, Prof. Burdon-Sanderson, Dr. Pye-Smith. Dr. Armand Ruffer, of 19 Iddesleigh Mansions, Westminster, S.W., will act as honorary secretary until the first meeting of the Council.