Yol.  49.]  axxtversaey  address  or  tde  president.  59 
duly  articled  to  a  local  surgeon,  he  studied  Medicine  and  Surgery 
both  in  Leeds  and  in  London,  and  in  1S3S  became  a  Member  of  the 
Loyal  College  of  Surgeons.  Prom  1839  to  1542  he  was  House- 
Surgeon  of  the  York  County  Hospital,  and  towards  the  close  of  the 
latter  year  he  proceeded  to  Paris  and  attended  lectures  in  the 
Paculte  de  Medecine.  Heturning  to  England  in  1843  he  commenced 
a  country  practice  at  Mbit  well,  a  village  on  the  Oolites  a  few  miles 
west  of  his  native  Malton.  Thence  he  ultimately  removed  to  York, 
where  for  upwards  of  30  years  he  applied  himself  with  much  success 
to  the  work  of  a  general  practitioner.  In  his  later  years  he  re¬ 
linquished  practice,  and  continued  to  devote  a  great  pa1^  of  his 
time  to  the  increase  of  his  already  large  collection  of  fossils. 
There  can  be  very  little  doubt  that  Mr.  Heed  strengthened,  if  he 
did  not  imbibe,  his  taste  for  fossils  in  the  pleasant  valley  of  Derwent, 
where  he  first  settled  down  to  practise  after  his  return  from  Prance. 
His  collection  of  the  Inferior  Oolite  fossils  of  that  district,  carefully 
separated  from  those  of  the  Coralline  Oolite  of  Malton  itself,  is  a  fairly 
good  one  and  was  of  much  use  in  assisting  geologists  to  discriminate 
between  the  two  formations.  It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  record 
the  assistance  that  I  have  myself  received  from  him  in  that  respect. 
In  earlv  days.  Mr.  Heed’s  specimens  were  mainly  the  spoils  of  his 
own  hammer,  but  as  time  went  on  his  attention  was  largely  devoted 
to  the  purchase  of  collections,  and  year  after  year  he  kept  adding  to 
the  stock  until  the  house  in  Blake  Street  was  full  to  overflowing. 
Indeed  his  work  in  Geologv  seems  to  have  been  chiefly  in  this 
direction,  for  there  is  no  record  of  his  having  written  anything 
except  a  short  note  on  a  boring  at  Masham.  Portunately,  as 
Honorary  Curator  in  Geology  to  the  Yorkshire  Philosophical  Society, 
this  king  of  collectors  found  a  legitimate  outlet  for  his  accumu¬ 
lating  treasures.  In  their  excellent  Museum  at  York,  Mr.  Heed 
had  the  pleasure  of  arranging  the  different  collections  which  from 
time  to  time  he  had  presented  to  them,  and  almost  to  the  day  of 
his  death  found  a  congenial  occupation  in  making  good  any  de¬ 
ficiencies  which  might  happen  to  be  noticed. 
He  died  at  York  on  May  9th,  1892,  after  a  short  illness,  in  his 
82nd  year. 
Sir  Jaites  Brtxlees,  M.Inst.C.E.,  P.H.S.E.,  was  born  at  Eelso  on 
the  5th  January,  1516.  After  leaving  school  he  was  put  by  his 
father  to  gardening  and  farm  work,  with  the  intention  of  his  being 
trained  as  a  landscape  gardener.  Having  a  desire  for  a  higher 
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