xl Annual Report of the Council. 



Presidency of this Society, of which he had been a member 

 since 1881, but for reasons of health he could not accept ; for 

 the same reason he declined two years ago the Presidency of 

 the Chemical Society. 



Dr. Mond died at his house in London on December nth, 

 1909, and was buried at East Finchley. Few men have lived a 

 fuller life : very few have been able to take so active a share in 

 the promotion of pure science as well as of its industrial 

 application. H.B.D. 



Thomas Worthington, F.R.I. B.A., a member of the 

 Society for nearly 45 years (elected on 21st February, 1865), 

 was born nth April, 1826, at the Crescent, Salford, his father 

 being Thomas Worthington, merchant, a native of Nottingham. 



He attended the well-known school of the Rev. J. R. 

 Beard, D.D., in Broughton, where so many Manchester men of 

 the last generation received their early education. 



Mr. Worthington was articled in 1840 to Mr. Henry 

 Bowman, a Manchester architect (a member of our society), 

 joint author with his partner Mr. J. S. Crowther (also a member 

 of the Society) of "The Churches of the Middle Ages," in the 

 illustration of which Mr. Worthington assisted. 



While a student Mr. Worthington won the Isis Gold Medal 

 of the Society of Arts. Having completed his articles he spent 

 a considerable time on the Continent, the year 1848 being 

 devoted to gaining a knowledge of Italian architecture. Inci- 

 dentally he had some interesting experiences in that year of 

 continental revolution. 



In 1849 he began practice as an architect in Manchester, 

 and had a successful career, amongst his works being the 

 Overseers' offices m Fountain Street, the City Police Courts, 

 NichoU's Hospital, the Memorial Hall, the Manchester Albert 

 Memorial, and also the beautiful buildings of Manchester 

 College, Oxford. He designed many hospitals, and was one of 

 the first to introduce the " pavilion " method of hospital con- 

 struction, now universally adopted. Besides public buildings 



