Annual Report of the Council. lxiii. 



At an early age he succeeded his father as head of the 

 firm S. E. Cottam & Son, chartered accountants, and carried 

 on the business with marked ability and success. In 1858 

 he married Mary Southam, youngest child of John Justice 

 Southam, physician, and leaves two children, a son a 

 clergyman and a daughter an artist. 



Mr. Cottam was elected a member of this Society on 

 January 25, 1853. He was a man of many interests and 

 some activity, though less active than his father. He was 

 always interested in Science, especially in Astronomy, 

 Botany, and Photography. Although his great deafness 

 made conversation with him difficult, he was a clever and 

 interesting talker, of wide reading and full of information. 

 His accomplishments included music and several modern 

 languages. At a time when travelling was not so general 

 as it has now become, he had visited several European 

 countries, but of late years he was too deeply attached to 

 his home to travel far away from it. The few who were 

 admitted to intimacy with him found him a steadfast friend 

 of a kind and generous disposition. He died on September 

 17, 1896, and w r as buried in the family vault in the church- 

 yard of St. Paul's, Kersal Moor. 



Thomas Hick was born May 5th, 1840, and died July 31st, 

 1896. A Yorkshireman by birth, Mr. Hick was educated at 

 the Royal Lancasterian School at Leeds, in which institu- 

 tion he was made assistant master in 1861, and of which he 

 was elected the head master from 1863 to 1873. During 

 those years he prepared for and passed the Examinations 

 for the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science 

 of the University of London. He also attended classes at 

 the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, under 

 Professor Huxley and Thiselton-Dyer. 



In 1873 he was appointed Science and Mathematical 

 Master at the Pannal College, near Harrogate, and at the 

 same time taught Botany and Physiology at the Mechanics' 

 Institute in Bradford. In 1886 he was appointed Demon- 



