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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 
iation at Liverpool, and made arraugements for a fleeting 
of the Association at Leeds. 
1840. A Paper with Practical Hints on Steam Engines, Boilers, 
Locomotive Engines and Railways. 
1842. A Review of Professor Whewell's Philosophy of the Inductive 
Sciences. 
Three Lectures on Chemical Analysis were given in 1845. 
1847. A Paper on a Comparison between the Modern Languages 
of Europe. 
His last lecture was delivered in 1851, the subject being " Explo- 
sions in Coal Mines : causes and preventions." 
Some of the Papers after 1837, were read before the members of 
the West Riding Geological and Polytechnic Society, as well as at 
the meeting of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. 
He also contributed Papers to our Society on the Proportion of 
Sulphur in Iron. On a remarkable case of the action of Spring-water 
on Lead. On some peculiar states of Water at High Temperature, 
and on the Freezing of W^ater in Red-hot Vessels. On the Chemical 
Analysis of Water for Steam Engines. Remedies for Incrustation in 
Boilers, and notice of a remarkable case of crust composed of Sulphate 
of Lime. 
Mr. West's activity of mind, and earnestness of purpose were 
not confined to scientific subjects. He was a member of the Town 
Council for Hunslet Ward from 1844 to 1850, and was for many years 
local secretary to the Anti-Slavery Society. A sincere member of 
the Society of Friends, he took much interest in the cause of peace, 
and was a delegate to the Peace Congress held in Paris in 1849, in 
which Mr. Cobden took a prominent part. One of Mr. West's sons, 
Mr. Tuflfen West, displayed such conspicuous ability as a draughtsman 
in relation to natural history, that the leading work of this class 
came from his hands for many years. 
Henry Hartop. 
Seamer Lodge, Scarborough, 
Dear Sir, September 7th, J888. 
I am sorry not to have sent the very scanty information I have 
got sooner. My uncle has only sent me the dates of Henry Hartop's 
