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FKEDERICK ARNOLD LEES. 



(1847-192L) 



Fredeiuciv Arnold Lees was born at Burmaiistofts Hall, near 

 Leeds, on January 20, 1847 ; his father, Dr. F. II. Lees, was well 

 known as a temperance lecturer. He was educated at the Leeds 

 Grammar School and at Durham University, and in 1S71 qualified 

 as M.ll.C.S. and L.li.C.P. Mr. J. V. Pickard, o£ Headingley, 

 Leeds — his intimate friend for man}^ years, to whom I am indebted 

 for information, — writes that Lees noted in his diary that he owed 

 his first instruction in Botany to an under master (Rev. G. F. Fleay) 

 in the Leeds School, who in the summer of 1805 instituted a course 



of natural history teaching; under this master Lees began to collect, 

 and a visit to Wensleydale and later to the Lake district further 

 developed the interest he had acquired. 



It was owing to Fleay's " personal flair for the naturalistic, 

 imaginative side of things " that Lees " chose medicine as his 

 metier, that career early seeming to him to be the one which con- 

 ferred most 2^oiver on the individual and allowed the congenial pur- 

 suance of chemic and botanic study with least dislocation of the 



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