Dr. Percival. ji 



ders and his dress, but it improved the appearance of a 

 man of his years, as it gave a completeness to the white- 

 ness and covered what imperfections might exist in the 

 complexion of the head. His manners were exceedingly 

 pleasing, easy, but formal ; recalling the past and con- 

 trasting with the present hurry of business. He took us to 

 the time of Percival, who again took us to the times of the 

 old regime of France, a time when appearances were beau- 

 tiful, however deceitful. Dr. Bardsley lived in later life in 

 a house on Ardwick Green, at the north corner of Bruns- 

 wick Street. He liked to recall old days, and to look 

 also at new science, but especially to speak of all he re- 

 membered. Sir James Lomax Bardsley, M.D., was his 

 nephew, and till lately active among us. 



The sanitary episode, a very important one in Man- 

 chester, has come in as a part of the life of Dr. Percival 

 who began it. It is not our intention to give minute 

 details of any life. We wish only to touch upon them 

 lightly, and to show their connection with the Society. We 

 shall meet the founder again when giving a short account 

 of his paper on the perceptive power of vegetables, but we 

 cannot leave this more formal attention to him without a 

 renewed expression of a full belief, that Manchester had 

 in him a wise and good man, who had a broad view of 

 his duties and a true love of his fellow-creatures. 



And whilst he saw the greatness and oneness of Crea- 

 tion in the present he was not narrowed even to that, but 

 hid in his heart a large sympathy with the past and hope 

 for the future. He was not a man who need be asked if he 

 believed in God, because he lived so much and closely with 

 Him that belief was not the term that could express the 

 intimate faith and love. 



