ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MICROSCOPY, ETC. 
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He was a Deputy Inspector-General. “ He entered tlie Grenadier Guards 
in April 1838, and served in the Crimean campaign, receiving the gold 
medal with clasp, the fifth class of Medjidie, and the Turkish medal. 
After serving more than thirty years in the regiment he retired in 
December 1868. Mr. Blenkins has so long retired from active work 
that the younger generation will hardly recognize his name as one of 
the most active and valued workers in the metropolis some thirty years 
ago. He was one of that distinguished class of army surgeons, then by 
no means too numerous, who to a thorough knowledge of his profession 
and departmental duties, added a great love of scientific research in the 
active study of its most difficult departments. He was a practical and 
skilful histologist, when to be so was a rare distinction in the schools in 
civil life. 
“We incline to believe that he was the first amongst "the teachers of 
histology in the metropolitan medical schools who instituted classes of 
practical microscopic work and demonstration. He lectured and taught 
at Lane’s School of Anatomy and Medicine adjoining St. George’s 
Hospital, and as far back as 1851 he carried on a class of practical 
histology, in which every student was provided with a Microscope, and 
was taught himself to make, prepare, and put up the specimens. This 
class Mr. Blenkins conducted while a surgeon in the Guards, and it had, 
at that time at least, few if any parallels in this country, for what is 
now an every-day rule of teaching was then a rare and brilliant 
exception.” 
The writer of the notice adds : — “ This brief tribute is due to the 
memory of one of the most lovable and accomplished surgeons of liis 
day, for to a handsome presence, great dignity and refinement of manners, 
of which the only fault perhaps was a somewhat marked reserve, 
Mr. Blenkins joined singular modesty, unfailing kindness of heart, and 
an interest in the personal welfare of his pupils, which lasted through- 
out his and their lives.” 
To the Society’s Transactions he contributed in 1858 a note “ On 
an early Human Ovum.” * 
The late Mr. F. R. Cheshire. — We regret to learn that Mr. F. R. 
Cheshire, who was some years a Fellow of this Society, died on the 17th 
of September last, aged 61. Mr. Cheshire was greatly interested in 
Bees, and in 1885 he made us two interesting communications, which 
will be found in the Journal for that year. One was by himself on 
“ The Apparatus for Differentiating the Sexes in Bees and Wasps,” the 
other, in conjunction with Mr. W. Watson Cheyne, dealt with “ The 
Pathogenic History and History under Cultivation of a new Bacillus 
(JB. alvei), the Cause of a Disease of the Hive Bees hitherto known as 
Foul Brood.” 
Removal of Rust from Instruments.!— Herr Sauger recommends 
the following method for removing rust from instruments : — The 
instruments are placed for the night in a saturated solution of chloride 
of tin, when the layer of rust will disappear by reduction. After taking 
them out of the solution, the instruments are washed with water, brought 
* Cf. Trans. Micr. Soc., vi. (1858), pp. 5-9, pi. ii. 
f Central-Ztg. f. Optik u. Meckanik, xv. (1894) pp. 237-8. 
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