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M.D., M.R.C.P, 



DR. FRIPP, a worthy successor to Mr. Sanders in the 

 presidential chair of the Bristol Naturalists' Society, 

 was born in 1816, and passed through his curriculum at 

 the Bristol Medical School, being a pupil of the late Dr. 

 Symonds, at the Bristol General Hospital. In 1838 he 

 became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and 

 then began practice in Wales as medical officer to the iron 

 works at Tniscedwyn, near Swansea. Shortly after this he 

 went to Germany as medical officer to the. iron works at 

 Nisterthal, in the Duchy of Nassau. Having by nature an 

 aptitute for mechanics, Dr. Fripp took so great an interest 

 in these works, that, in addition to his professional respon- 

 sibilities, at the request of the directors, he accepted the 

 office of chief engineer, and held this post till 1848, when 

 these works were closed owing to disturbances consequent 

 upon the unsettled state of the political atmosphere. After 

 this Dr. Fripp spent some years on the Continent in medical 

 and scientific study and research, and in 1855 took the 

 degree of M.D. at Wiirtzburg. While abroad he worked for 

 some considerable time under Kolliker. In 1856 he obtained 

 the membership of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 

 and settled in Clifton as a physician. He was soon elected 

 physician to the Bristol General Hospital, and held this 



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