In Memoriam : W. Barwell Turner. 



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was from 1861 to 1866. He then entered breweries at Ply- 

 mouth, at Watlington in Oxfordshire, and Bruton in Somerset- 

 shire ; then in Staffordshire, and finally came to Yorkshire in 



1876, being first at Bentley's Brewery at Woodlesford. In 



1877, he settled down in Leeds as manager of the Brunswick 

 Brewery, and was married in the same year to Miss M. E. Jones, 

 of Bruton, Somerset. He left the Brunswick service in 1884, 

 and set up in private practice as Consulting Brewer and 

 Analytical Chemist. In 1891, he was stricken down by a 

 grievous illness, which rendered him more or less an invalid 

 for the remainder of his life, and necessitated, in 1909, the 

 amputation of one of his legs. This illness was to him a more 



W. Barwell Turner's Book Plate. 



than ordinary trial, cutting short the various activities of a busy 

 man. He was essentially a man of strong and active con- 

 stitution, powerful build and unceasing energy, of the nature 

 to whom enforced inaction was in the highest degree irksome 

 and tedious. 



The interest to readers of a journal like this lies more in 

 his scientific proclivities, his leisure-time hobbies, than in his 

 professional career. 



As a member of the Leeds Naturalists' Club, of which he 

 was President in 188 1, he devoted himself to microscopical 

 research, and he energetically conducted the microscopical 

 section of the Club. He directed his own attention more 

 particularly to the fresh-water algae, and was in this a fellow- 

 worker with various others, including Otto Nordstedt and 



1917 June 1. 



