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I WAS born in Littleborough, in Lancashire, September 6th, 1855. 

 After elementary education in private schools, I spent three and a half 

 3'ears at the Manchester Grammar School ; three years as apprentice 

 to a firm of manufacturing pharmaceutical chemists ; one year as 

 assistant to an analytical chemist ; one year as student of chemistry 

 at the Royal School of Science, South Kensington; one year as 

 science-teacher in a boarding school ; three semesters as student of 

 biology and geology at the Koyal School of Science, South Ken- 

 sington, under Professors Huxley, Thistleton-Dyer, McNab, and 

 Judd ; and one year at Owens College as student of zoology and 

 embryology, under Professor Milnes Marshall. I then entered the 

 University of Leipzig (1882), and while there was appointed 

 Assistant Lecturer and Demonstrator in Zoology in the Owens 

 College, Manchester, which post I still hold, along with the position 

 of Lecturer of the Victoria University. 



The Council of the College generously gave me leave of absence 

 for the whole of the summer session of the present year to enable 

 me to return to Leipzig, where I have made nearly the whole of the 

 observations recorded in the accompanying dissertation. 



CHARLES HERBERT HURST. 



October 20th, 1889. 



