xxxii Anmial Report of the Council. 



Returning to Manchester, where he set up in business, his 

 knowledge of the chemistry of brewing led to his election as 

 honorary analyst to the Manchester Brewers' Association — a 

 position which he relinquished on being appointed a justice of 

 the peace and a member of the Licensing Bench, of which he 

 was for many years the deputy-chairman. 



For the Manchester Brewers' Association he delivered, in 

 1877, a series of lectures on the cultivation of yeast, in which he 

 expounded and elaborated the studies of M. Pasteur ; and he 

 also lectured to the same society on diseases in beer. For his 

 colleagues on the Licensing Bench, he made a special report 

 on medicated wines, which is still used as a text-book by the 

 licensing department. 



As a member of the Rivers Committee of the Manchester 

 City Council, he made an exhaustive study of the purification of 

 sewage, and as chairman of the Manchester Justices Gas Meter 

 Testing Committee — a position he held for the fifteen years 

 preceding his death — he was instrumental in introducing the 

 index-test, and was a firm supporter of the movement for pro- 

 viding apparatus for measuring high-pressure gas. 



He married in 1859 Melicent, the elder daughter of Thomas 

 Estcourt, a relative of the Sotheran-Estcourts, his eldest son 

 being F. E, Bradley, M.A., M.Com., LL.D. — a former pupil of 

 Francis Jones and H. E. Roscoe — who was once the principal 

 assistant in Mr. Bradley's laboratory and, under his direction, 

 carried out the experiments which led to Mr. Bradley's 

 discoveries. B. 



James Geikie. — The great ice-age of Pleistocene times, dur- 

 ing which half of North America and more than half of Europe 

 were converted into Arctic wastes, will always be associated with 

 the name of James Geikie. Born in Edinburgh on the 23rd of 

 August, 1839, educated in the High School and University of the 

 same city, Geikie remained to the end of his days an Edinboro' 

 man, and fitly upheld the great traditions of geological investi- 

 gation which are the city's heritage from Hutton and Jameson. 



