xlii Animal Report of the Cou7icil. 



the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association. He produced 

 several very able and valuable reports u[)on the health of 

 Manchester and Salford, more especially in relation to the 

 pollution of the rivers, the contamination of the air by smoke, 

 the adulteration of food, and the housing of the working classes. 



In medical societies Dr. Leech took an active part, and 

 especially in the British Medical Association and its Lancashire 

 and Cheshire Branch. In 1877 he was one of the general 

 secretaries for the annual meeting of the Association in 

 Manchester, and was afterwards President of the Lancashire 

 and Cheshire Branch. In later years his interest was chiefly in 

 the Pharmacological and Therapeutical Section, of which lie was 

 Vice-President in 1887, and President in 1897 at the annual 

 meeting in Montreal, and for some years he was Chairman of 

 the Therapeutic Committee. 



In 1884 he became a member of the Manchester Literary 

 and Philosophical Society ; he was also a member of the Royal 

 Medical and Chirurgical Society, of the London and Manchester 

 Pathological Societies, and an Honorary Member of the 

 Pharmaceutical Society. 



In 1897 Dr. Leech was appointed a justice of the peace 

 for the city of Manchester. 



Much of Dr. Leech's time and energy was devoted to the 

 Owens College and the Victoria University. Appointed at first 

 Joint Lecturer in the Owens College in 1876, he became the 

 first Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in 1881, 

 and rapidly organised one of the finest Museums of Materia 

 Medica in this country, and introduced experimental Pharma- 

 cology into his teaching at a time when the importance of that 

 subject was but luile recognised in our English Medical Schools. 

 In the development of all departments of the Owens College 

 he took a deep and often generous interest, as a member of the 

 Senate, Council, or Court of Governors. 



In the formation of the Victoria University he bore a leading 

 part, and especially in the organisation of the Medical Faculty. 

 For many years a member of the Council and the Court, a 



