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  ANNIVERSARY 
  ADDRESS 
  OF 
  THE 
  PRESIDENT. 
  lxi 
  

  

  Judge 
  Hughes, 
  ' 
  Tait 
  had 
  done 
  nothing 
  else 
  at 
  Rugby 
  than 
  appoint- 
  

   ing 
  Sharp, 
  not 
  without 
  difficulty, 
  as 
  Reader 
  in 
  Natural 
  Philosophy, 
  

   he 
  would 
  have 
  deserved 
  the 
  gratitude 
  of 
  every 
  Rugby 
  man.' 
  

   Dr. 
  Sharp 
  was 
  also 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  early 
  supporters 
  of 
  the 
  establishment 
  

   of 
  local 
  museums, 
  and 
  read 
  a 
  paper 
  on 
  the 
  subject 
  before 
  the 
  British 
  

   Association 
  in 
  1839. 
  His 
  more 
  important 
  writings 
  were 
  on 
  the 
  

   various 
  schools 
  of 
  medicine, 
  and 
  appeared 
  at 
  intervals 
  under 
  the 
  

   title 
  of 
  ' 
  Essays 
  in 
  Medicine.' 
  He 
  died 
  in 
  April 
  1896. 
  

  

  Henry 
  James 
  Slack, 
  E.R.M.S., 
  who 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Fellow 
  of 
  this 
  

   Society 
  in 
  1849, 
  was 
  born 
  on 
  October 
  23rd, 
  1818, 
  and 
  died 
  on 
  June 
  

   16th, 
  1896. 
  He 
  was 
  educated 
  at 
  Dr. 
  Evans's 
  School, 
  North 
  End, 
  

   Hampstead, 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  seventeen 
  he 
  entered 
  a 
  wool 
  -broker's 
  

   office 
  in 
  the 
  City, 
  in 
  which 
  he 
  speedily 
  became 
  a 
  partner, 
  but 
  he 
  

   retired 
  in 
  1846, 
  finding 
  the 
  business 
  uncongenial 
  to 
  his 
  literary 
  and 
  

   scientific 
  inclinations. 
  He 
  then 
  devoted 
  himself 
  to 
  legal 
  and 
  forensic 
  

   studies, 
  and 
  was 
  in 
  due 
  course 
  * 
  called 
  ' 
  ; 
  but, 
  although 
  a 
  keen 
  

   debater 
  and 
  intensely 
  fond 
  of 
  either 
  a 
  scientific 
  or 
  political 
  discussion, 
  

   he 
  never 
  practised 
  at 
  the 
  bar. 
  

  

  Among 
  his 
  numerous 
  scientific 
  papers 
  three 
  only 
  bear 
  directly 
  

   on 
  geology, 
  namely 
  : 
  ' 
  On 
  Coccoliths 
  and 
  Coccospheres 
  in 
  Reigate 
  

   Sandstone 
  ' 
  ; 
  * 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  Comparative 
  Geology 
  of 
  the 
  Earth 
  

   and 
  Moon 
  ' 
  ; 
  and 
  ' 
  Life-Changes 
  on 
  the 
  Globe.' 
  Of 
  the 
  Royal 
  

   Microscopical 
  Society 
  he 
  may 
  be 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  

   founders, 
  and 
  he 
  filled 
  in 
  succession 
  the 
  offices 
  of 
  Secretary 
  and 
  of 
  

   President. 
  His 
  scientific 
  papers 
  mostly 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Intellec- 
  

   tual 
  Observer 
  ' 
  and 
  ' 
  Student,' 
  and 
  bear 
  chiefly 
  upon 
  microscopical 
  

   research. 
  Some 
  of 
  his 
  work 
  on 
  Infusoria 
  was 
  published 
  in 
  a 
  small 
  

   book 
  entitled 
  ' 
  Marvels 
  of 
  Pond 
  Life,' 
  which 
  passed 
  through 
  three 
  

   editions. 
  

  

  Thomas 
  Carrington, 
  M.Inst.C.E., 
  born 
  on 
  October 
  5th, 
  1841, 
  

   was 
  the 
  eldest 
  son 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  Thomas 
  Carrington, 
  J. 
  P., 
  of 
  Holy- 
  

   well 
  House, 
  Chesterfield. 
  After 
  studying 
  for 
  three 
  years 
  under 
  

   Dr. 
  Ashby, 
  with 
  the 
  view 
  of 
  obtaining 
  a 
  thorough 
  knowledge 
  of 
  

   chemical 
  analysis, 
  he 
  was 
  articled 
  in 
  1859 
  to 
  Mr. 
  G. 
  T. 
  Woodhouse, 
  

   who 
  was 
  in 
  practice 
  as 
  a 
  civil 
  and 
  mining 
  engineer 
  at 
  Derby 
  and 
  in 
  

   Westminster. 
  In 
  1873 
  he 
  was 
  appointed 
  by 
  the 
  Home 
  Office 
  one 
  

   of 
  the 
  three 
  examiners, 
  in 
  the 
  Yorkshire 
  district, 
  of 
  candidates 
  for 
  

   certificates 
  of 
  competency 
  as 
  managers 
  of 
  mines. 
  Mr. 
  Carrington 
  

   was 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  prominent 
  mining 
  engineers 
  in 
  the 
  Midlands, 
  

  

  