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Although he will be chiefly remembered as an eminent 

 mechanical engineer, he had devoted much attention to the 

 cultivation of forest trees, and was also interested in matters 

 relating to local government and education. He was a Trustee 

 of the Owens College, Manchester, and had held the positions 

 successively of County Magistrate, Deputy Lieutenant, and High 

 Sheriff of Staffordshire. He had been a member of this Society 

 since December, 1864, and in 1872 he was elected a member of 

 the Institution of Civil Engineers. In 1859 he became a member 

 of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, of which he occupied 

 the Presidential chair in 1878 and 1879. His death occurred at 

 his residence, Westwood Hall, Leek, on July 9th, 1902, 



[A fuller notice appears in Engineering, July i8th, 1902, and 

 in Min. of F roc. Inst. Civ. Engin., Vol. CL., pp. 447-451.] 



Henry Edward Schunck, though of German extraction, 

 was born in Manchester in 1820, and throughout the whole of 

 his long life his connection with the city was most intimate. 

 His career is not marked by any thrilling incidents, but is a 

 continuous record of earnest and successful work, mainly 

 devoted to one particular branch. Sent abroad, while still a 

 youth, to study chemistry at Berlin, and subsequently at Giessen, 

 under Liebig, he became deeply interested in vegetable colouring 

 matters, being attracted thereto because this was then an unknown 

 field. The enormous production of artificial colouring matters since 

 the aniline industry came into being almost hides the fact that 

 dyeing is one of the oldest arts, a large number of materials having 

 been used for this purpose since very early times ; for example, 

 Brazil wood, logwood, sandal wood, litmus, woad, archil, buck- 

 thorn, sumach, cochineal, nitric acid (for silks), quercitron, 

 catechu, and Prussian blue, not to mention madder and indigo. 

 Schunck, of course, did not attempt to explore the whole of this 

 territory, but, beginning with the colouring principles of archil 

 and cudl^ear, on which he read an important paper before the 

 Chemical Society in 1842, he subsequently turned his attention 



