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during which time a considerable portion of the fabric was 

 restored and the new tower rebuilt. Retiring from practice 

 in 1879, he still retained his connection with the profession 

 through the Manchester Society of Architects, of which he 

 was one of the original members. Though taking little 

 part in the work of the Society, he continued his connection 

 with it until his death, at the ripe age of eighty-five years, 

 and is remembered for the kindliness of his disposition and 

 his readiness to assist others. 



Mr. John Barrow, F.S.x^., had been a member of the 

 Society since i '^6'j. The bent of his studies lay in chemistry 

 and in natural history, and, except for the last year or two 

 of his life, he was a diligent frequenter of the meetings of 

 the Natural History and Microscopical Section, on the 

 council of which he sat for many years. He was a good 

 field botanist, a patient observer of the phases of growth 

 and the structure of plants, and was distinguished for the 

 assiduity with which he would follow up any special line of 

 research. He was not very ready with his pen and so 

 presented few papers to the Society, but his natural history 

 communications were at times of considerable value. He 

 was specially interested in the medullary rays, and adjacent 

 tissues, as the depositories of starch ; the distribution of the 

 nutritive elements in seeds ; the development of the flower 

 in the Coniferce ; parthenogenesis in the hive-bee ; &c. He 

 took great pains to illustrate any special subject of vege- 

 table physiology, or structure, by employing large series of 

 progressive microscopic sections, which represented the 

 same organ at different parts of the axis, or at different times 

 of the year. In the display of such sections to audiences too 

 large for sitting round a table of microscopes, he manifested 

 considerable ingenuity. In 1869, finding it difficult to 

 describe with precision certain structures which puzzled 

 him, he was led to devise a lantern arrangement by which 

 he could project upon a large screen of finely-ground 



