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and useful career in connexion with the College of Surgeons and 

 other Medical Institutions. The judgment of his contemporaries 

 upon his work was manifested by his election in 1850 as a Fellow 

 of the Eoyal Society, and by his receiving a Royal Medal from that 

 Society in 1871 ; he also served as a Member of the Council and 

 Vice-President of the Royal Society. Of our own Society he was 

 elected a Fellow in 1859, and he twice served upon the Council ; in 

 1878 the Lyell Medal was awarded to him, and the year before his 

 death Mr. Busk received the " blue ribbon " of our Society in the 

 form of the Wollaston Medal. During the latter years of his life he 

 filled the office of Inspector of Medical Schools and Physiological 

 Laboratories, under the Cruelty to Animals Act. After a lingering 

 illness he passed away on the 10th of August, 1886, in his 80th year. 



All who knew Mr. Busk will acknowledge the justice of the 

 following estimate of his character by his life-long friend Dr. Allman : 

 " A single-minded, true-hearted man, a warm friend, and an able 

 and accomplished naturalist." 



In those of whom I have already spoken we have had to sigh 

 over the passing away of men whose strength had already been 

 quenched in the labour and sorrow of fourscore years ; but in Jonif 

 Aethfe PmLLirs we have lost one of our most active members, fallen 

 untimely, — his work, as we fondly thought, still far fromfinished. 



Mr. Phillips was born, in November 1822, at Polgooth, near St. 

 Austell, Cornwall, his family being connected with the important 

 tin-mine at that place, and it was in Cornwall that the days of his 

 early education were passed. When twenty years of age, the true 

 bent of his mind was indicated by his preparing for the Annual 

 Exhibition of the Cornwall Polytechnic Society a specimen of fine 

 lace delicately covered with a deposit of copper, by the then new 

 process of electro-metallurgy, and for this he received the first 

 prize. On this occasion young Phillips would seem to have made 

 the acquaintance of Robert Were Pox, and for a time to have 

 assisted him in making experiments upon the electrical condition 

 of mineral veins. 



Peeling very strongly, however, the necessity of a thorough 

 scientific training, Mr. Phillips determined to go to Paris and study 

 at the Ecole des Mines, there being at that time no institution in 

 this country where a similar course of instruction could be obtained. 

 After passing through the curriculum of the celebrated French 

 school and receiving its diploma, Mr. Phillips obtained employment 



