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the literature of medicine, he communicated from time to time 
to the professional journals many papers of acknowledged value. 
Like most county and country practitioners of ability, he found 
recreation in cultivating a favourite branch of science, little, if 
at all, connected with his profession. This in Dr Barnes’ instance 
was meteorology. His studies in this department of natural 
history were the main cause of his being associated with us as 
a Fellow of the Boyal Society. A paper by him on “ The Meteor- 
ology of Carlisle for 24 years,” was read to the Society in 1830 ; 
and in the same year he was elected one of our Fellows. Forty 
years later, and therefore quite recently, he contributed to the 
Proceedings of the Society a continuation of his inquiries on the 
same subject. 
Dr Barnes died in March last, in the 79th year of his age. 
Dr John Addington Symonds, another county physician of great 
eminence in England, was born in 1807 at Oxford, where his 
father practised the medical profession. The opportunities of his 
birth-place gave him the inestimable advantage of an excellent 
general education, which ever afterwards shone out in his tastes 
and the occupations of his leisure hours. After taking advantage 
for two years of the limited opportunities which Oxford in these 
days presented for the study of the fundamental sciences of 
medicine, he repaired in 1825, being then in his 19th year, to 
the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated three years 
afterwards. He was a very distinguished student, as I personally 
know, for he was one of my pupils in 1827, when I was Professor 
of Medical Jurisprudence. Nor were his studies confined to me- 
dicine, — philosophy at that time being also a favourite pursuit. 
Returning to Oxford, he assisted his father in his practice for 
three years. But in 1831 he was induced to settle in Bristol; and 
there at first, and afterwards in conterminous Clifton, he passed 
his whole professional life. 
Dr Symonds attained great reputation as a practising physician 
at an early age. Crowds were attracted to him from all quarters 
of Great Britain, partly no doubt by the salubrity of the climate 
of Clifton, but chiefly by the eminence of its physician. The 
climate had been long considered favourable for the treatment of 
