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individually and in their national aggregates all present- 

 ing the type of " the whining schoolboy, with his satchel 

 and shining morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly 

 to school." 



' At length, however, successful teachers have raised the 

 spirit of lofty enterprise ; and, by reason of extended and 

 personal intercourse, relations of- mutual benefit have been 

 so widely extended that peoples of different nations begin 

 to approach the condition of a vast co-operative society, 

 giving to each member the utmost value of their joint 

 labours.' (See p. 323). 



It is fortunate that we have it in our power to give 

 some account of a remarkable life from the pen of Mr. 

 J. C. Dyer's son, Mr. F. N. Dyer, now in Macclesfield. 



Notice of the Life and Labours of J. C. Dyer, V.P. of the 

 Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. By 

 F. N. Dyer. 



' Joseph Chessborough Dyer was born in the small town 

 Stonnington Point, in the province of Connecticut, on 

 November 15, 1780. He was thus by birth an English 

 subject, the independence of the United States not being 

 recognised by the British Government till the peace of 

 1783. He was the son of Captain Nathaniel Dyer, Rhode 

 Island Navy, who had been sent to Stonnington to put 

 the little port in a posture of defence. The family soon 

 returned to Noosenec Manor, Rhode Island, an estate 

 held under a grant of Charles II. to Edward Dyer, or 

 Dyre, as the name was then spelled. At an early age, 

 Mr. Dyer had the misfortune to lose his mother. She was 



