1844.] Linnean Society, 207 



Curvatures of the Spine." He also made several minor commu- 

 nications to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 and to the Academic de Medecine of Paris, of which he was a 

 Foreign Member. Of the Linnean Society he became a Fellow in 

 1814, but he has no paper in our Transactions. 



As a lecturer it is stated of him, that " though his manner was un- 

 adorned by the arts of verbal eloquence, he became highly popular 

 from the ideas which he imparted, and the distinct and logical lan- 

 guage in which they were clothed : his classes were always very 

 large, and by his means the reputation of the Medical School of the 

 University of Dublin was materially elevated." !His introductory 

 Lecture to the Anatomical Course of 1824 was published in 1826 ; 

 and the substance of his Lectures on Inflammation, the most import- 

 ant and original part of his Surgical Course, are given in his ' Trea- 

 tise on Inflammation,' published the year after he resigned his Pro- 

 fessorship. This volume contains an exposition of his views on the 

 proximate cause of inflammation, and of his mode of administering 

 steam fomentations and applying water dressings, now so universally 

 and beneficially adopted in surgical practice. 



Charles Saville Onley, Esq. 



Simon Stephenson, Esq. 



George William Wood, Esq., was the eldest son of the Rev. Wil- 

 liam Wood of Leeds, an early Fellow of the Society, and the inti- 

 mate friend of our founder and first President. He was bom in 1 781, 

 and became connected at an early age with one of the largest esta- 

 blishments in Manchester, of which he continued to be a partner until 

 its dissolution, when he retired from business with a handsome for- 

 tune. At the general election for 1832 he was returned to Parlia- 

 ment for the Southern Division of the county of Lancaster, and in 

 1837 for the borough of Kendal, which he continued to represent tQl 

 his death. Although endowed with an hereditary fondness for botany 

 and with a strong attachment to geology, the active pursuits of busi- 

 ness and the conscientious discharge of his public duties left him 

 little leisure for their cultivation ; but he was ever ready to promote 

 the views of those who were more actively engaged in the prosecu- 

 tion of science, and to render them such services as his position en- 

 abled him to perform. Of this disposition we have a striking proof 

 in the Bill introduced by him and carried through Parliament in the 

 course of the last Session, the efi^ect of which is to exempt scientific 

 societies from local taxation ; a bill for which we have ourselves 

 reason to feel grateful, as relieving our funds from a burthen of 

 some importance. The circumstances of his death may also be re- 



