151 
In this paper he certainly accounted for many tidal pheno- 
mena, and brought together many curious facts gleaned from 
a wide circle of reading. His views of cosmical phenomena 
were original, and he frequently took part in discussions 
from his own peculiar point of view. 
Mr. Thomas Turner, F.E/.C.S., was born at Truro, the 
23rd August, 1793. His father, Mr. Edmund Turner, was a 
banker in that town. His mother was descended from an 
old Cornish family named Ferris. Mr. Thomas Turner was 
the youngest of three sons. The eldest, Edmund, succeeded 
his father as a banker, and became a member of Parliament, 
representing his native town in the Liberal interest for 20 
years. The second son, Charles, a lieutenant , in the East 
India service, was killed by a sunstroke in India. There 
were also two sisters older than Mr. T. Turner, both of 
whom are dead. Educated at Truro Grammar School, he 
left for Bristol, in 1811, to be apprenticed to Mr. Duck, who 
was surgeon to St. Peter’s Hospital in that town. Mr. 
Turner left Bristol for London in 1815, and entered as 
student under Sir Astley Cooper at the United Hospitals of 
Guy’s and St. Thomas’s. He passed at the Eoyal College of 
Surgeons and Apothecaries’ Hall in 1816. After this he 
studied in Paris, and became acquainted with most of the 
eminent men who flourished in the Parisian schools at the 
time. He left Paris in 1817, and it was through the influ- 
ence of relatives then residing in Manchester that he was 
appointed resident house surgeon to the Manchester Work- 
house. He remained there until the autumn of 1821, when 
he commenced practice in Piccadilly, opposite the Koyal 
Infirmary. 
Mr. Turner was appointed secretary to the Manchester 
Natural History Society in 1821, and continued for veiy 
many years to take an active interest in its progress. The 
Koyal School of Medicine and Surgery, heretofore in Pine 
Street, and which Mr. Turner has lived to see united to 
