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is needless to say that his indefatigable research, his patience and 

 perseverance, aided by high mental qualifications, ensured a com- 

 plete and satisfactory elucidation of the subjects which claimed his 

 attention, and rendered his practical use of the microscope in the 

 investigation of diseases as well as on other subjects most valuable. 

 It would be travelling beyond the object of this short notice to 

 allude to the contributions made by our deceased friend to medical 

 literature or to the many services he has performed by his careful 

 and exact analysis of matters submitted to him by medical friends. 

 It is sufficient to say that with a retiring and modest disposition he 

 was ever ready to give his valuable time and scientific knowledge and 

 experience when and wherever it was desired or likely to be useful. 

 Mr. Farrants was an old member of the Eoyal Microscopical Society ; 

 he was for many years elected to the Council, and in 1861-2 he 

 was the President. At that period it was the good fortune of the 

 Society to receive, through the medium of Mr. Farrants, that very 

 valuable instrument for microscopical writing invented by his friend 

 Mr. W. Peters. It is unnecessary to refer to the great pleasure 

 every member of the Society has derived from the admirable mani- 

 pulations of that instrument by the late Mr. Farrants ; certainly so 

 long as the instrument remains to adorn the Museum of the Society 

 it will always be associated with the pleasant recollection of our 

 departed friend, whose premature death at the age of 60 has 

 deprived the Society of a valued member, and has left a void in a 

 circle of friends which it will be difficult to supply. 



" Peter Jones, F.E.M.S., late of Norton Folgate, was born in 

 the year 1808. He was in his youth a student at the Birkbeck 

 Mechanic's Institution, where he became remarkable for his attach- 

 ment to the pursuit of natural history, especially botany ; he also 

 possessed a considerable knowledge of mineralogy and chemistry. 

 Having passed through the usual period of studentship he became 

 a lecturer on chemistry, in which he obtained considerable success. 

 He afterwards established himself in Norton Folgate as a scientific 

 and manufacturing chemist, and commenced business by giving a 

 series of conversaziones at his house, which were rendered attractive 

 by the exhibition of objects of natural history, and the employment 

 of the microscope in their more minute investigation. He was 

 elected a Fellow of the Eoyal Microscopical Society on the 12th of 

 December, 1860. He died rather suddenly of angina pectoris on 

 the 15th of March, 1870, in the 62nd year of his age." * 



Ellis Goode Lobb, F.E.M.S., was born in 1807, at Canonbury 

 Square, Islington, London. His father carried on an old-established 

 business as an outfitter, at 148, Cheapside. Mr. Lobb was educated 

 at St. Paul's School, and was intended for the law, but circumstances 

 led him to follow his father's business, to which he succeeded about 



* ' Linuean Society's Journal.' 



