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Isaac Cooke Thompson 



F.L.S. 



A BRIEF MEMOIR 



BY 



W..A. HERDMAN. 



In the death of Mr. Isaac C. Thompson last November, 

 at the comparatively early age of 60, the Biological 

 Society loses one of the founders, a constant member of 

 Council and a past President, the L.M.B.C. a devoted 

 Hon. Treasurer and business-head, and Liverpool a much 

 esteemed and helpful citizen, who will be greatly missed 

 in connection with various scientific and educational 

 organisations. His scientific comrades will probably wish 

 to have some record of the leading events of his active 

 life, and his many business and social friends may be 

 interested to know what he did for biological science in 

 Liverpool. I am indebted to Mrs. Thompson, to his sister 

 (Miss Frances Thompson) and to his brothers (Mr. W. P. 

 Thompson and Mr. G. E. Thompson) for some of the 

 particulars and dates previous to about 1880, when I first 

 met my friend. 



Since 1881 I have been privileged to enjoy a 

 very close companionship with Isaac Thompson, both 

 in town and country, over our microscopes and books 

 in the winter evenings, and on sea and moorland during 

 vacation expeditions. The Sunday before his death, as 

 on many previous Sunday evenings, we met and spent 

 some time together over scientific work, and before we 

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