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James Heiwood, F.R.S., M.A., was the fifth son of the late 

 Mr. Nathaniel Heywood, banker, of Manchester, and was born 

 on May 28th, 1810. He was educated at Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, where he was a Senior Optima in 1833. He could not, 

 however, proceed to his degree until 23 years later, on account of 

 the religious tests, which were abolished only in 1856 by the 

 Cambridge University Reform Act. Of this, as Member for North 

 Lancashire, he was the chief promoter ; for already in 1854, he had 

 moved and carried, after several previous attempts, a clause, by 233 

 against 78, in favour of the abolition of religious tests for the 

 Bachelor's degree in Arts, Laws, Medicine, and Music. There can 

 be no doubt that this fundamental reform led the way to the intro- 

 duction of experimental science into our universities. He was one 

 of the original trustees of Owens College, Manchester, and took a 

 keen interest in the establishment and development of the scientific 

 chairs in that institution. He was elected into the Eoyal Society 

 in 1839, and was at the time of his death the Fellow of longest 

 standing. Mr. Heywood published in 1853 ' The History of 

 University Subscription Tests,' and in 1855 translations of ' The 

 Early Cambridge Statutes,' ' Academical E-eform and University 

 Representation ' ; also ' Cambridge University Transactions during 

 the Puritan Controversies,' Prof. Huber's 'English Universities,' 

 Prof, von Bohlen's ' Illustrations of the First Part of Genesis,' 

 and Prof. Heer's ^ Primaeval World of Switzerland.' For more 

 than twenty years Mr. Heywood resided in Kensington, and he 

 presented to that parish a free library (to which the Vestry added a 

 reference free library) and a free library for Brompton. Mr. Heywood 

 was elected a Fellow of this Society in the year 1837. He died on 

 October 17th, 1897, at the age of 87. 



Charles John^ Leap, F.L.S., F.S.A., was elected a Fellow of this 

 Society in 1870. He was a member of the well-known firm of 

 Pawson, Leaf, & Co., St. Paul's Churchyard, and did much to foster 

 a taste for science and literature among the young men employed 

 by the firm by engaging well-known scientific men to deliver 

 to them periodical lectures, etc. He was also the founder of 

 the Old Change Microscopical Club. He died on October 21st, 

 1897. 



The Eev. Peter Bellinger Brodie, M.A., who had been a 

 Fellow of this Society for 63 years, and therefore one of its oldest 

 members, died at Rowington Yicarage on November 1st, 1897, at 



