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SOME OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE SOCIETY. 
person seriously to maintain the post glacial existence in these islands 
of the great pachyderms, and to suggest that they might even have 
been coeval with man. 
Yours faithfully, 
T. Pridgin Teale. 
Mr. James W. Davis. 
Thomas Pridgin Teale, F.R.S. 
Thomas Pridgin Teale, the eldest son of Thomas Teale, Esq., a 
surgeon in extensive practice at Leeds, was born in that town on the 
first day of the present century. He received his early education at 
the Grammar School at Heath, near Halifax, and continued his 
studies at the Leeds Grammar School until his eighteenth year, when 
he began his medical studies at the Leeds General Infirmary, and 
spent the session of 1819-20 in the University of Edinburgh. During 
the three following winters Mr. Teale attended the practice of Guy's 
and St, Thomas's Hospitals, where he was a pupil of Sir Astley 
Cooper, Mr. Green, and other distinguished teachers. These studies 
were followed by a residence in Paris, where he had the advantage of 
the practical instructions of Dupuytren and Lisfranc. At a com- 
paratively early age Mr. Teale had given proofs of that keen interest 
in operative surgery which is the first condition of success. He was 
elected a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1823, and 
about the same time, when only about twenty-two years old, was 
noticed as the first provincial surgeon in England who had performed 
the operation of tying the sub-clavian artery for axillary aneurism. 
The promise of such a beginning was well sustained throughout 
Mr. Teale's subsequent practice. 
Having settled as a practitioner in his native town, he married 
in 1827, the eldest daughter of the Rev. Charles Isherwood, M.A., 
of Brotlierton, in Yorkshire. In 1831 he took, in conjunction with 
several other friends, an active part in the foundation of the Leeds 
School of Medicine, and at its opening, in the autumn of the same 
year, delivered the introductory lecture. This school has now, during 
thirty-four years, steadily maintained its high character for efficiency, 
and among the several causes that have combined to produce such a 
result, must be reckoned the services of Mr. Teale, whilst he was a 
