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against Dr. Alderson's Theory.* On the 16tli 

 of May, 1825, Dr. Alderson's " Account of 

 " a Whale of the Spermaceti Tribe, cast on 

 " shore on the Yorkshire coast, on the 28th 

 " April, 1825," was read before the Cambridge 

 Philosophical Society, and is printed in their 

 Transactions ;f and in April, 1830, he communi- 

 cated to the Medico-Chirurgical Society his 

 " Pathology of Hooping Cough," which was 

 printed in the proceedings J of that association. 



ADRIAN HARDY HAWORTH, of Little Chelsea, 

 Esq., F.L.S., and F. H.S., is likewise an hono* 

 rary member of this Society, and a native of Hull : 

 he was educated for the Law,|| but his retired 

 habits, combined with his love of natural science, 

 induced him to relinquish that profession, and he 

 has since devoted his time to the study of Botany, 

 Entomology, and other branches of Natural His- 

 tory. In early life, Mr. Haworth wrote an his- 



* See Dr. Bostock's " Elementary System of Physiology," vol . 3, p. 397. 



f Vol. 2, p. 253. 



| Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, vol. 16, p. 78. 



A week after the present Address was read, Dr. Alderson delivered an 

 " Introductory Lecture," at the Hull General Infirmary, to a class of 

 Medical Students, to whom the Physicians and Surgeons, attached to that 

 excellent Institution, give lectures, in turn, once a fortnight. He has 

 since published it, at the request of his friends, in a neatly-printed pam- 

 phlet, illustrated by some spirited wood cuts, from drawings made for the 

 purpose by his accomplished Lady. 



|| Mr. Haworth served his Clerkship in Hull, with Mr, Frost, the 

 Author's late Father. 



