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into surgical practice and the acknowledged title of " The 

 Father of Ovariotomy" in this country. He was an 

 original fellow of the Obstetric Society of London, a 

 member of the Gynaecological Society of Boston, U.S., and 

 at one time a Lecturer on Midwifery at St. Mary's Hos- 

 pital, Manchester, and President of the Medical Society of 

 Manchester. Amongst his many publications are " A 

 Handbook of Obstetric Surgery," and " The Results of 

 Three Hundred and Fourteen Ovarian Operations." His 

 scientific tastes were, however, far from being restricted to 

 the particular branch of his profession in which he achieved 

 such distinction. His latest appearance in person at the 

 Society's house in George Street was in his 88th year, to 

 read a communication bearing on the problem of the 

 squaring of the circle ; and his last communication, already 

 alluded to, which was read in his absence by one of the 

 Secretaries a few months later, testified to his continued 

 interest, as an experimental observer, in botany. As already 

 indicated, he was early a practical geologist. He also took 

 a deep interest in numismatics, was at one time President 

 of the Manchester Numismatical Society, and wrote a 

 " History of the Currency of the Isle of Man." 



F. J. F. 



Thomas Armstrong was, at the time of his death, the 

 senior partner of a long-established and well-known Man- 

 chester firm of opticians. He was born in 1828. In 1825 

 his father began the business in the building in Deansgate, 

 formerly the Dean's House, in which it is still carried 

 on. He was associated with various improvements of the 

 microscope, and was a member of most of the popular scien- 

 tific societies of Manchester, and took a warm though 

 unobtrusive interest in their work ; and he was a Fellow of 

 the Royal Microscopical Society of London. A faithful sup- 

 porter of the Church of England, he for some time filled the 



