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2000 objects principally prepared by himself, and many of great 
beauty. His attention in recent years has been devoted with much 
success to photography. 
William Kencely Bridgman, l.d.s. Eng. (b. 1812, d. 1883), 
[President, I860 — 74; Council, 1862 — 04, 1874 — 77, 1878 — 81 ; 
Secretary, 1852 — 59], was born at Walpole St. Peter, and was 
educated as a chemist with Mr. H. II. Priest, of St. Giles’ Street, 
Norwich. After living for a few years at Lowestoft, he turned his 
attention to Dental Surgery, and settled in Norwich in that profes- 
sion, one which accorded with his inborn facility of invention and 
adaptation. When he became a student of the microscope, his 
experience with the lathe enabled him to provide several accessories 
which at the time wore highly esteemed. Dr. L. Beale, in ‘How 
to work with tho Microscope,’* gives an illustration of his “finder,” 
with a diamond point arranged to draw a circle on the cover glass 
of a slide, and also refers with great approval to his plan by which 
a sliding point attached to the tube of the instrument made an 
inked dot on a label on a slide. The Maltwood finder has perhaps 
superseded these, but at the time they supplied a great want. As 
before mentioned, he was the first Secretary of the Society, and 
held that office from 1852 to 1859. 
Donald Dalrymple, m.d. (b. 1815, d. 1873), was the son of an 
eminent Norwich surgeon, whom he succeeded in his profession, 
afterwards adopting that of a physician. His elder brother, John, 
was eminent in London as an oculist, and was also an F.K.S. 
After his early death, his very tine Ross instrument and collection 
of pathological slides came to his brother in Norwich. 
In 1860 Mr. Dalrymple visited the Holy Land, and brought 
home for his friend, Mr. Brightwell, several gatherings of diatoms, 
but he was not a regular attendant at the Society’s meetings. 
William Brooke (b. 1795, d. 1S67), [Council, 1863 — 66], was 
for many years a schoolmaster of great repute in the city. He was 
a good general naturalist, and one of his pupils tells me that the 
window in his schoolroom near his desk always contained an array 
of micro-slides in course of preparation. He was a careful 
observer of minute aquatic life, and a most regular attendant at the 
meetings of the Society. 
* Edit. 1880, p. 18, pi. xvii., fig. 1 1. Ibid, p. 49. 
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