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that noble academical establishment, the Owens College, 
owes its first complete organisation to Mr. Turner. In the 
autumn of 1822 he commenced his first course of lectures. 
They were given at the rooms of the Literary and 
Philosophical Society, in George Street, on the ematomy, 
physiology, and pathology of the human body. These 
lectures Mr. Turner regularly continued till October, 1824, 
when he established the Medical School, with the object of 
enabling local practitioners to study their profession com- 
pletely without the necessity of going to London. Dr. 
Dalton became the lecturer on chemistry at Mr. Turner’s 
Institution. 
In 1831 Mr. Turner was elected surgeon to the Manches- 
ter Royal Infirmary, the duties of which office he zealously 
performed for 25 years, when he resigned, and was appointed 
honorary consulting surgeon. This position he held to the 
last. In 1843 he was appointed honorary professor of 
physiology to the Royal Institution, when he annually 
delivered a course of lectures — the last course being delivered 
12 months ago. Mr. Turner has also been honorary surgeon 
to the Manchester Deaf and Dumb School from its founda- 
tion till now. Of the Infant Deaf and Dumb School he was 
the chief promoter, and he laid the foundation stone of the 
building at Old Trafibrd in 1859. He also originated the 
Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association in 1851, and 
was alwa}^ one of its most earnest supporters. His loss 
will be very widely felt, from the systematic beneficence 
which he practised as a medical man. 
Mr. Turner was made Fellow of the Royal College of 
Surgeons of England in 1843, and elected to the Council of 
the College in 1866. He resigned his seat there last July. 
In addition to those already enumerated, Mr. Turner held the 
positions of Fellow of the Linnsean Society, and honorary 
member of the Harveian Society, London. Fle was the 
author of “ Outlines of Medico - Chirurgical Science 
