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Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on October 31st, 

 187 1, but, owing to the increasing worries of business, he ceased 

 to be a member a few years later. He subsequently rejoined 

 the Society, being again elected a member on November i6th, 

 1887, and in the following year he again evinced his liking for 

 scientific circles by becoming a life member of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science at the Bath meeting 

 of that year. In 1896 he was elected treasurer of the Man- 

 chester Literary and Philosophical Society, and continued to 

 hold that office until his retirement in 1902. There is no doubt 

 that these practical engagements with science, as being to some 

 extent a fulfilment of his youthful desires, added much to the 

 happiness of his later years. He was a man of genial tempera- 

 ment and generous impulses. He died at his residence at 

 Didsbury on March loth, 1904, in the 6ist year of his age, 

 and was buried at Willow Grove Cemetery, Reddish. 



F. J. F. 



James Edward Cornish, son of Samuel Cornish, second- 

 hand bookseller, was born in New Turnstile, Holborn, in 1831. 

 He was educated at the City of London School under Dr. 

 Mortimer, and at the age of thirteen left school and was sent to 

 the shop at Birmingham (still carried on under the style of 

 Cornish Brothers) where his eldest brother WiUiam managed the 

 business for himself and his brothers Charles, John, James, 

 and Thomas, as they came of age. In 1854 James and his 

 younger brother Thomas left their brothers and commenced at 

 33, Piccadilly, Manchester, and in a very few years took a 

 leading position there. The partnership between them was 

 dissolved in i860, when Thomas opened a shop in Oxford 

 Street, London. He died in 1880. James was appointed in 

 1868 bookseller to the Owens College, Victoria University, and he 

 published many books by professors and lecturers at the College. 

 In 1879 he purchased from Mr. Edwin Slater the old-established 

 business at No. 16, St. Ann's Square, formerly carried on by 

 Messrs. Simms and Dinham. This shop was much enlarged by 



