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sent them in parliament, which he continued to do till 1865. 
It may be mentioned that he was the nephew of the Rev. 
William Turner, who was an honorary member of the Lite- 
rary and Philosophical Society for many years, and whom 
he always held in the greatest reverence. While actively 
engaged in business, and holding several public offices, such 
as that of Chairman of the Manchester Commercial Asso- 
ciation, President of the Natural History Society, and Chair- 
man of Manchester New College, he yet found time to 
cultivate his strong taste for natural history, and was no 
mean proficient in certain branches of entomology and 
botany, and had expended a large amount both of time and 
money in forming collections illustrative of these subjects. 
Mr. Heelis was elected a member of the Society on the 
19th of April, 1859, and for three years filled the office of 
secretary of the Physical and Mathematical Section. He 
was a very intelligent and accurate observer, and in the 
course of several voyages during which he visited India, 
China, the Cape of Good Hope, North America, and the 
coasts of the Mediterranean, he accumulated a large mass 
of valuable observations, some of the results of which were 
given to the Society in the following papers and communi- 
cations : — 
November \0th, 1859. — “On Storms, with some attempt to 
ascertain their tracks in the neighbourhood of the British Islands, 
and their analogy to other Cosmical Phenomena.” 
January 5th, I860.— “On R. Bohun’s old work 4 On the Origin 
and Nature of Wind,’ published at Oxford in 1671.” 
April 25tli, 1860. — “On the Observations of the Sun made 
by Hevelius in the years 1642-3.” 
November 1th, 1861. — Observation of the Zodiacal Light at 
Smyrna, September 13th, 1861. 
March 18 th, 1862. — 44 On Abnormal Trade Winds.” 
November 13 th, 1862. — Notes of Observations on r/ Argus.” 
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