THE 



EDINBURGH NEW 

 PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL, 



Biographical Memoir of Edward Turner, M. D., F. R. S. L. 

 Sf E. Professor of Chemistry in the University of London, 

 ^c. By Robert Christison, M. D., F. R. S. E. Professor 

 of Materia Medica in the University of Edinburgh, &c.* 



Gentlemen, — The subject I propose to bring before you on 

 the occasion of our again meeting together, is a biographical 

 sketch of the late Professor of Chemistry in University College, 

 London, our departed friend, Dr Edward Turner. 



I am sensible that my choice of a subject is in one respect 

 vmusual ; fov Dr Turner never was our fellow member. But I 

 feel confident that more than an apology will be found by you 

 all in his fame as a man of science, his reputation as a teacher 

 his worth as a man, — in his recent death, while in the vigour of 

 his age, and in the ties of friendship which bound him to many 

 now before me. There are passages in his life, which, for the 

 sake of the rising generation, ought not to be lost, and some 

 particulars, too, from which all may take a useful lesson. If, 

 on these accounts, a biographical tribute be due to his memory, 

 on no one can the task of rendering it be so justly charged as 

 upon myself, the constant companion of his youth, the most in- 



• The above Memoir was read before the Harveian Society of Edinburgh 

 on the liith of April 1837, and printed at the request of the Society. 



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