CHAPTER IV 



Difficulties in the Manchester Natural History Society 

 Harrop and his friends Questions of salary Literary 

 and Philosophical Society Limestones in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the town Dr. Henry's determination- 

 Leigh and Binney's memoir My memoir on Ardwick 

 beds Council dispute upon my expenses Phillips 

 and Fleming Threatened duel Museum work among 

 birds Pseudo naturalists Tricks upon amateurs 

 Fossil fishes Paper for British Association meeting at 

 Liverpool My private life Methodist friends Resig- 

 nation of curatorship Preparations for lecturing tour 

 Medical student life in Manchester Manchester 

 scientific life Dalton Dalton and his portraits Dr. 

 William Henry, Roberts, Sir William Fairbairn, and 

 Eaton Hodgkinson Whitworth Blackwall ; James 

 Aspinall Turner ; Binney Botanical clubs Buxton 

 Sir Edward Smith Mr. John Moore Leo Grindon 

 Peter Clare Dr. Edward Holmes Social condition of 

 the Literary and Philosophical Society. 



IF, before my acceptance of the curatorship of 

 the Manchester Museum I had known all I sub- 

 sequently learned, I should certainly have shrunk 

 from taking the step. The museum of the Natural 

 History Society, with which I now became con- 



