THE LISTER WARD AT THE ROYAL INFIRMARY, GLASGOW.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A pamphlet has come to my hands, in which a protest against the destruction of this building is made, and to my mind the protest is so reasonable that public attention should be called to it. I am not pleading for the building on the ground of its value as a building, but on its great historical interest, as the workshop of a famous man.
Everyone knows of Pasteur and Lister, and one would have thought that Glasgow's pride in Lister would have insured the retention of this building at any cost. As far as I can understand the motive for destruction, it is based upon the consideration of symmetry. There is a low gatehouse in the forecourt and the Lister ward stands on one side of it, both being one-story buildings.
Personally I feel that the monotony of the whole group of buildings due to symmetry is broken by the extra little ward at the side, still the whole point of my letter is summed up in the question, Is not such a tangible memorial of so great a man worth almost any sacrifice ?—although I am unallle to see that any sacrifice is involved.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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