xlii Annual Report of the Council. 



Fellow in the Owens College. It was a significant fact of the 

 great reputation already acquired by Weismann that among the 

 many distinguished 'zoologists from all parts of the world, in- 

 cluding Carnoy, Wiedersheim, Hubrecht, Giard, and many 

 others, Weismann was selected as the principal guest at a dinner 

 held in the Albion Hotel during the meeting of the Association. 

 He was elected an Honorary Member of the Manchester 

 Literary and Philosophical Society on April 17th, 1894. 



To those among our countrymen who enjoyed his personal 

 friendship and were indebted to him for many personal kind- 

 nesses, it came as a shock to learn that in his old age and 

 enfeebled health he publicly renounced this and the many other 

 honours and distinctions with which he had been endowed by 

 English scientific societies, but when the hate and glamour of 

 war has passed away, the memory of Weismann must remain as 

 one of the great figures of his generation. S J. H. 



Samuel Barton Worthington, Railway Engineer, was 

 born at Stockport on the 4th December, 1820. His early home, 

 except for the first few months, was in Manchester — first in 

 Salford, then in Broughton, the boy attending successively the 

 schools of the Revs. Edward Hawkes, and J. R. Beard. 



At sixteen he began his training as an engineer, and for six 

 years was a pupil of Joseph Locke, friend and fellow-worker of 

 Stephenson, thus being in the very thick of the railway rush of 

 that time. 



As a boy, in 1830, he had seen the opening of the Liverpool 

 and Manchester Railway and in 1836, the first year of his 

 apprenticeship, he rode with Robert Stephenson (son of George 

 Stephenson) on the very first engine ' the Zamiel ' which took a 

 passenger train from Birmingham to Liverpool, Mr. Joseph 

 Locke driving the engine part of the way. He was also on the 

 first engine which went through the Penistone tunnel on the 

 railway from Manchester to Sheffield. But most remarkable of 

 all was the responsible share he had in the making of the first 

 French railway between Rouen and Paris. From 1840 he was 



