MEMOIR OK THE HATE FREDERIC KITTON. 
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FREDERIC KITTON, 
24th April, 1827 — 22nd July, 1895. 
Ii v .James Mottkam. 
Read 80th March, 1806. 
On the formation of your Society in 1869, Frederic Kitton was 
one of the two Vice-Presidents then appointed, and he served the 
office of President for the term 1873 — 74. It will, therefore, be 
agreeable to many that some notice of him should appear in your 
‘ Transactions.’ 
An interesting memoir of him has been prepared and published 
by his son, a copy of which is placed in your library, but whilst 
making use of .some of the matter therein contained, it will be 
suitable in these pages to recall him, as he was known to us here 
in Norwich. 
Born in Cambridge, he removed to this city in 1844, at the age 
of 1 7, and then commenced to assist in the tobacco business carried 
on by Mr. Robert Wigham, in the Haymarket. 
Mr. Wigham was a botanist of some repute, and his young friend 
soon began to join in his rambles and studies. 
Mr. Thomas Brightwell was at that time carrying on his micro- 
scopic enquiries into the Diatomacese, in which subject Wigham also 
was interested, and it thus came to pass that Kitton assisted the 
first named in many ways, and through him, in the course of a few 
years, was in correspondence with many of the best authorities on 
the subject. There is no record of the exact date from which he 
was considered a member of the Norwich Microscopical Society, 
but he became the friend of all connected therewith, and all had 
to thank him for the unfailing accuracy of his knowledge, for his 
ready assistance in all technical matters, either with the microscope, 
or the preparation of objects, and for his liberality in the supply of 
any material which had come into his hands. 
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