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Edinburgh, he was a successful teacher, and by dint of hard 
work and considerable self-sacrifice, created a most efficient 
department. To this Society he was a firm and constant 
friend—elected a Fellow in 1885, he was placed on the 
Council in the following year, and elected a Vice-President 
in 1888. 
As a scientific worker he was enthusiastic and con- 
scientious; he drew his conclusions with caution, but was 
ready to defend them vigorously. He was a genial comrade, 
but only those of us who had the privilege of long-standing 
friendship with him knew the warmth and sincerity of his 
affection. 
XIX. Obituary Notice of the late Charles Jenner, F.RSE. 
By J. G. Gooncu ILD, F.Z.S., F.G.S., Vice-President. 
(Read 17th January 1894.) 
Mr Jenner was born in Kent, went to school there for a 
few years, left England in his early teens for the north, there 
entered into business, and, eventually, built up one of the 
most important commercial concerns to be found in any part 
of the kingdom. Practically Mr Jenner was a self-educated 
man, as by far the greater part of what he knew was acquired 
during the intervals between business hours; and it is as 
well to remember that in those days self-tuition was by no 
means the comparatively easy matter that it is now. 
All this implies that he was a man of strong will, energetic, 
enterprising, and business-like, and that he was clear-headed, 
observant, and shrewd, beyond the ordinary run of men. It 
implies also that he possessed, largely, the power of bearing 
ereat numbers of facts in mind, and of being able to marshal 
those facts in such a manner as to frequently base sound 
generalisations upon them. 
Mr Jenner’s real education may be said. to Vee: com- 
menced when he began to travel for commercial purposes. 
' These led him to visit, year after year, many different parts 
of this kingdom, and eventually took him repeatedly to many 
of the best-known cities on the Continent. He appears to 
