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Christian Association. He held this office from 1835 to 

 1838, and in these early years of his residence in this city 

 he was invited by successive Councils of our Society to 

 attend its meetings, a privilege he regularly used and 

 highly valued. In the autumn of 1838 he entered himself 

 as a student in the Pine Street Medical School of this 

 city. He completed his professional studies in the 

 London University College and Hospital, and in 1840 

 was enrolled a member and licentiate of the College of 

 Surgeons. In January, 1844, he began to practise 

 medicine in Wilton Street, Oxford Road, and shortly 

 afterwards was appointed active surgeon to the Chorlton- 

 upon-Medlock Dispensary. The engrossing nature of 

 a surgeon's life leaves little leisure for outside studies, 

 but the number and the character of the geological 

 and other papers which he gave to the world during 

 this period of his life were not less remarkable than 

 those which originated during his apprenticeship. In 

 1836 he published in the Proceedings of the Geological 

 Society (Vol. II.), a paper " On the distribution of 

 organic remains in the oolitic formations on the coast 

 of Yorkshire " ; in 1840 and 1842 similar papers 

 on Yorkshire fossils, " From the lower lias to the Bath 

 oolite inclusive," in the Transactions of the Geological 

 Society, Vols. V. and VI. ; in 1836, " On the Limestones 

 found in the vicinity of Manchester," in Vol. IX. of the 

 Philosophical Magazine" ; in 1837, "On Fossil Fishes in 

 the Lancashire coalfield," in Vol. II. of the Proceedings of 

 the Geological Society, followed in 1837 an d 1839 by allied 

 papers, " On the affinity of some Fossil Scales of Fish 

 from the Lancashire coal-measures with those of the 

 recent Salmonidce," in the Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 

 XL, and " On the Fossil Fishes of the Yorkshire and 

 Lancashire coalfields," in Vol. III. of the Proceedings of 

 the Geological Society. At the Liverpool meeting of the 



