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scholarships ; he remained connected with the Hospital for fifty 

 \ears, and during that term he filled almost every position on the 

 stafe. 



He became M.B. of London in 1857, Member of the Eoyal 

 College of Physicians in 1869, a Fellow in 1875, and a Doctor of 

 Medicine in 1877. His literary activities were chiefly confined 

 to his profession, but in the seventies he was active in promoting 

 natural history research in local societies. Apart from his hospital 

 studies, he acted as examiner in Medicine at the Universities of 

 Cambridge and Loudon. On his retirement Irom practice, he 

 settled at Andover, and it was while on a visit to a neighbouring 

 cathedral city that he passed a^ay. His connection with the 

 Linnean Society dated from January 18th, 1877; and he became a 

 Fellow of the Eoyal Microscopical Society in 1871). 



Thomas Glazebkook Ei"la>'ds, whose death was reported at the 

 last Anniversary Meeting, was born in Wai-rington, 24th Mav, 

 1818, the second son of John Eylands by his second wife, Martha, 

 daughter of the Eev. James Glazebrook, Vicar of Belton, Leicester- 

 shire. He came of an old Lancashire stock, well known for the 

 pubhc spirit of its members, and was educated at Warrington 

 Grammar School. On the retirement of the father in 1843 from the 

 business of wire manufacturer, the firm was reconstituted under the 

 name of Eylands Brothers, which in 1868 became converted into a 

 company. Of his friends in or near Manchester in middle hfe, we 

 find mentioned T. W. Barlow, Prof. W. C. "Williamson, Mr. Side- 

 botham, Leo H. Grindon, and other naturalists ; while from his 

 early years a close friendship existed between him and "William 

 AVilson, author of ' Bryologia Britannica." Collections and anno- 

 tated notebooks of that time are extant, and show his enthusiasm 

 for field pursuits. In the study of Diatoms, he corresponded with 

 Prof. G. A. W. Arnott, Sir W. J. Hooker, Dr. E. K. Greville, John 

 Ealfs, Dr. W. B. Carpenter, Tuffen West, Dr. G. C. Wallich, 

 Brebisson of Falaise, and many others. For several years from 

 1858, all his spare time was given up to microscopic study of these 

 minute plants ; and from Dr. Greville alone, by 1861, he is stated to 

 have received more than 1200 slides, chiefly of British forms. Dr. 

 Greville on his death in 1866 left Mr. Eylands 700 bottles of 

 Diatoms, and his entire collection of 2000 or 3000 shdes, but after 

 the death of Arnott in 1868, little more microscopical work was 

 done by Evlands. 



His correspondents in phanerogamic botany comprised H. C. 

 Watson of Thames Ditton, G. W. Francis, G. E. Dennes, Secretary 

 of the Botanical Society of London, Edward Xewman, and 

 Edward Forbes. His herbarium is still in good preservation. 



The earliest paper on natural history which he published seems 

 to have been *' On the Varieties of British Ferns, and the diagnoses 

 of Allied Species,*' in the ' xS atm-alist ' for lb39 ; he recorded 

 ^udmgAdiantum CajnUiis- Veneris in the Isle of Man, in the 

 ' Phytologist ' for 1842 ; and in the same journal for 1842 he 

 had two papers on Moiwtrajjci Hypopitys, the second on what is 



