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MR. J. MOTTRAM ON THIS NORFOLK AND NORWICH 
Some notes by him of the development of the eggs of Limnceus 
■periger are entered in the minute book. 
One of his pupils, whom he introduced to the Society, was 
James Newbegin (b. 1820, d. 1871), [Council, 1865 — 68, 
1870— ], who with his father of the same name was a tobacco 
manufacturer in Norwich. Like Mr. Brown and Mr. Bridgman, 
he was an expert lathe worker, originally making his own stand 
(on the Ross model), and afterwards altering it to binocular form. 
He was a most careful manipulator, and perhaps the chief exhibitor 
at the meetings of then difficult test objects. In his later years 
he had but little time to give to his favourite studies, as he threw 
all his energy, as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Guardians, into 
the working of the Poor Laws in the City, and he died, at a 
comparatively early age, deeply regretted by those who knew him. 
Elijah Bleakley (b. 1818, d. 1857), was educated as a surgeon, 
but suffering from ill health, and having independent means in the 
later years of his life, he only practised to assist his professional 
brethren. He was an expert anatomist, and his connection with 
the Society, coupled with ample leisure, supplied the stimulus for 
him to devote his power to the preparation of objects, in which he 
was eminently successful. He also made one gathering of diatoms 
at Felixstowe, which had almost world-wide repute — one practically 
pure, of that beautiful form, Plmrosigma formosum. More than 
once was the search repeated there, but the chance did not recur. 
Very retiring, but of most kindly manners, he was ever ready to 
assist his brother members in their studies, and his death, at the 
age of thirty -nine, was a great regret to them. He also had other 
earnest interests, as by his will, on the recent death of his widow, 
his property passed to the Norwich City Mission ; but so many 
years have passed away, that his personality is remembered but 
by few. 
But more should now be said of Joseph Crompton, m.a. 
(b. 1813, d. 1878), [Council, 1862, 1871 — 74], to whom, 1 believe) 
the inception of the Society was due. The son of a Birmingham 
surgeon, and educated at Glasgow University, in 1839 he settled in 
Norwich as the minister of the Octagon Chapel. Well educated) 
and endued with all that is most estimable in a man, he had 
a most happy facility of picking out the salient points in a new 
book or the most recent discovery in science, and then of com. 
