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property. He took an active interest in local literary and 
scientific institutions, and was one of the founders of the 
Manchester Royal, and Mechanics’, Institutions. He held 
the presidency of the latter institution from 1824 to 1841. 
In 1831-32 he represented the county in parliament, and 
whilst in London became an intimate associate of the pro- 
minent literary and scientific men of the time. 
Mr. John Parry had been a member of the Society for 32 
years, having been elected on the 26th of April, 1833. He 
was a constant attendant at the ordinary and sectional meet- 
ings of the Society, and took an active part in the formation 
of the Microscopical, Natural History, and Photographical 
Sections. He was the inventor of coloured signal lamps for 
railways, the first lamps of this kind having been made by 
the late Mr. Ford, of Cateaton-street, under his directions, 
and used on the Manchester and Leeds Railway. He had 
been forty-three years in the confidential employment of 
Messrs. Lockett and Co., the well known engravers to calico 
printers, and was one of the first to employ photography in 
connection with that business, in which he also introduced 
the electrotype process in 1839. His mechanical skill and 
ingenuity were displayed in the construction of a large solar 
microscope on a principle similar to that of the one exhibited 
at the Adelaide Gallery, London, about 1839 or 1840; in 
making a panoramic camera, camera bellows, apparatus for 
waxing paper, and for drying albumen plates ; and in cutting 
and polishing sections of fossils for microscopic slides. He 
was an enthusiastic photographer, and had been very success- 
ful in producing enlarged photographs of microscopic objects. 
In the summer of last year he visited the coast of Galway, 
where he succeeded in finding a rich deposit of Foraminifera 
containing many new species, descriptions and lists of which 
have been given by Dr. Alcock in the Society’s Proceedings. 
The several Sections of the Society have continued to ex- 
hibit their usual activity, and have furnished many important 
