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1887. Method of cooling water for technical purposes. Ibid, p. 711, 

 1892. Patent — manufacture of Ferric Sulphate for sewage purposes. 



1895. Treatment of Zinc Ores and Complex Ores containing Zinc. Jour, 



Soc. Chem. Iiid., Vol. 14, p. 544. 



1896. A feed-water heater for technical purposes. Jotir. Soc. Chem. Ind., 



Vol. 15, p. 252. 



H. G. 



James Heelis. — In a large commercial centre like Man- 

 chester whose inhabitants are, broadly speaking, all workers, 

 there must be many who have not the necessary leisure to 

 develope to the full the talents with which they have been 

 endowed bv nature. Such persons look forward to the time 

 when they can sever their connection with business and devote 

 the autumn of their lives to the pursuit of the literary and 

 scientific subjects which they can only follow in a dillettante 

 fashion in their busier years. 



Such a man was the late James HeeHs, whose premature 

 death in March last at the early age of 55 is to be deplored, not 

 only from its happening far from his friends and from his home, 

 but also from its coming at the very commencement of the 

 period of leisure which he had earned by a business career of 

 nearly 40 years. 



Born in 1843, the sixth and youngest son of Stephen Heelis, 

 formerly a well-knowm Solicitor of this city, James Heelis 

 received the rudiments of his education at the Grammar School 

 at Sandbach, in Cheshire, from which he was taken in 1861, at 

 the age of 18, to be articled to his father. He was admitted a 

 Solicitor in 1866, and in 1868, on the death of his brother, 

 Thomas Heelis, he was taken into his father's firm. From this 

 time until his retirement from business at the beginning of 1897, 

 his life was almost wholly absorbed with his professional work, 

 in the conduct of which his great abilities were widely recognised. 



Outside the sphere of his business, James Heelis was em- 

 phatically one of those whose education is never completed ; 

 who never cease to cultivate and develope the tastes and talents 

 which they possess, and who add to a discriminating choice of 

 subjects a thoughtful and attentive appreciation of what they read. 



