330 Literary and Philosophical Society, 



Arthur Ransome. Mr. J. A. Ransome and his father were 

 intimate friends of Dr. Dalton. The former was also a 

 prominent member of the Society and regular in his atten- 

 dance, well informed on scientific subjects. 



He was one of those men whose force of character was 

 seen in conversation, and who made little if any attempt to 

 write his thoughts. 



(Thomas Jarrold, M.D., elected a member in 1807, 

 continued a member long after Dalton's death, and was a 

 physician of considerable renown in his day, following a 

 speculative system of his own. He is remembered at the 

 Society chiefly for his hand-writing, which was almost 

 illegible, and the difficulty of reading his prescriptions. 

 The writer of this short notice remembers an incident 

 which occurred in the library of the Society, then occu- 

 pied by Dalton, who, in addition to his chemical work, was 

 at that time a sort of managing director of the Society's 

 scientific proceedings. Dr. Jarrold came to complain that 

 a paper of his had not been read, when Dalton told him 

 flatly that it was illegible, adding sharply that the Doctor 

 could not read it himself, which, on trial, proved to be 

 true. Dr. Jarrold was fond of physiological and meta- 

 physical investigations, and wrote with much acumen on 

 * Instinct and Reason,' pointing out the essential distinc- 

 tion between the former as a perfect and complete faculty 

 and the latter as an imperfect unreliable quality, capable, 

 however, of improvement and unlimited growth.) 



