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Sn memoriam, 
HENRY EELES DRESSER. 
WE much regret to record the death of Henry Eeles Dresser. 
He came of a good old Yorkshire family. He was born on 
May gth, 1838, at Thirsk, and lived afterwards at Topcliffe. 
In late years, on his visits to ee tceec he always spent a day 
at Topcliffe. 

He was educated at Bromley, near London, afterwards 
in Germany, and also spent some time at Gefle and Upsala in 
order to learn the Swedish language, German and Swedish 
being necessary for his business in the timber trade; later he 
embarked in the iron trade. He visited most European 
countries and America, and had many interesting anecdotes 
to relate concerning his adventures in all of them. He told 
me several interesting ones connected with peccaries. He 
1916 Jan. 1. 
