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General Meeting, April IStli, 1884. 



Chakles Bailey, F.L.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. Samuel Okell, of Grange Road, Bowdon, and Professor 

 Daniel John Leech, M.D., were elected Ordinary Members 

 of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, April 15th, 1884. 

 Charles Bailey, F.L.S., in the Chair. 



"A Reminiscence of Dr. Dalton," by Chas. Clay, M.D. 



I think, but am not quite certain, that it was in the year 

 1816 or 1817, I was an apprentice to Kinder Wood, 

 Surgeon, 51, King Street, Manchester. About that time the 

 Marsden School of Medicine began its operations, of which 

 my master had the Midwifery Class jointly with Mr. 

 Partington. Jordan and Bluntstone on Anatomy, Dalton on 

 Chemistry, Fawdington on Surgery, Davies on Botany, and 

 some others. I mention this as it has often been stated 

 that the Pine Street School of Medicine was the first in 

 Manchester, which is not correct. 



Among other Lectures I was advised by my master to 

 attend the Lectures on Chemistry, by Dalton, which I did. 

 The course consisted of ten Lectures, which were to be 

 extended afterwards. I thus became a pupil to Dalton. 

 At that time he was busy experimenting on gases, and he 

 asked my master if he could suggest any plan by which he 

 could obtain some of the gases of the coal pits, more 

 especially what was usually called fire damp. Mr. Wood 

 replied, he had a friend in Oldham whose pits were un- 

 usually troubled with fire damp and had had many serious 



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