Ix Annual Report of the Council. 



Mr. Heelis was elected a member of the Society in 1873, 

 and though unable to devote himself to original research, he was 

 keenly interested in scientific subjects, and kept in touch with 

 the latest discoveries of the day. A voracious reader with a 

 retentive memory, his spare time was occupied with the assimi- 

 lation of a store of knowledge, the variety and scope of which 

 was remarkable. 



At all times fond of travel, the first few months of his 

 emancipation from business were occupied with a tour in India; 

 and it was on a second tour in the East a few months later that 

 he fell a victim to dysentery at Yokohama. A. A, G. T. 



James Heywood, M.A., F.R.S., the last surviving brother 

 of the late Sir Benjamin Heywood, died at his residence in 

 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, on October 17, 1897. He 

 was born at Everton on May 28, 18 10, being the fourth and 

 youngest son of Mr. Nathaniel Heywood and of Ann, daughter 

 of Dr. Thomas Percival, one of the founders of this Society. His 

 early education was received in Manchester, and continued later 

 at Bristol (under the Rev. Lant Carpenter), Edinburgh and 

 Geneva. He then entered Heywoods' Bank in Manchester, but, 

 in 1829, after the death of his uncle Mr. B. A. Heywood who 

 had bequeathed him considerable property, he withdrew and 

 entered Trinity College, Cambridge. In the Mathematical 

 Tripos of 1833 his name appeared among the Senior Optimes, 

 but, being a nonconformist, he did not graduate on account 

 of the religious test then enforced. This serious impediment he 

 was in later years the main instrument in removing by promoting 

 the Cambridge University Reform Bill, which was passed in 

 1856, and under which he proceeded to the degree in 1857. For 

 some years he represented North Lancashire in the House of 

 Commons, and was a liberal in politics. 



Mr. Heywood was greatly interested in matters relating to 

 the spread of education, and was one of the founders of the 

 Manchester Athenaeum, of which he was the first president, and 

 laid the foundation stone of the building. A marble medallion 



