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of the Royal Society, vol. 10, 18G0. Mr. Lowe was also 

 associated in business with our member Mr. Wilde as an 

 electrical engineer, and suggested to him the plan of exciting 

 a number of electromagnetic machines by the current from 

 one machine, instead of employing a separate exciting 

 machine for each. With his philosophical attainments Mr. 

 Lowe combined estimable moral qualities, the most con- 

 spicuous of which were the amiability of his character and 

 the generosity of his disposition. 



Mr. Joseph Jordan, F.R.C.S. Engl., was one of the oldest 

 members of the Society, having been elected on the 19th of 

 October, 1821. He was born in Manchester, and, with the 

 exception of a short period when he was surgeon of the 1st 

 Lancashire Militia, resided in Manchester all his life. He 

 retired from active practice about nine years ago, when he 

 was in the 76th year of his age. His name will be dis- 

 tinctly remembered as the founder of provincial medical 

 schools. As early as 1814 he gave regular courses of lec- 

 tures on anatomy, with demonstrations and dissections, to 

 classes of medical pupils and students. He was the first 

 provincial lecturer and teacher whose certificates were ac- 

 cepted and recognised by the examining bodies in London, 

 The Apothecaries' Hall began to accept his certificates in 

 1817, and the College of Surgeons in 1821. In 1826 he 

 built a medical school in Manchester at his own cost, and, 

 besides its lecture hall, provided it with one of the most 

 commodious and best-fitted dissecting rooms in England, 

 and transferred to it his own valuable museum, containing 

 nearly 4,00.0 anatomical specimens and morbid and other 

 preparations. He subsequently placed this museum in the 

 Manchester Royal School of Medicine. He devoted himself 

 to the arduous duties of a public lecturer for twenty years. 

 On his retiring from the chair a public dinner was given to 

 him by his friends, in October, 1834, attended by almost 

 every medical man of reputation in Manchester, and a 



