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of the Royal Society, vol. 10, 1860. Mr. Lowe was also 
associated in business with our member Mr. Wilde as an 
electrical engineer, and suggested to him the plan of exciting 
a number of electromagnetic machines by the current from 
one machine, instead of employing a separate exciting 
machine for each. With his philosophical attainments Mr. 
Lowe combined estimable moral qualities, the most con- 
spicuous of which were the amiability of his character and 
the generosity of his disposition. 
Mr. Joseph Jordan, F.R.C.S. Engl., was one of the oldest 
members of the Society, having been elected on the 19tli of 
October, 1821. He was born in Manchester, and, with the 
exception of a short period when he was surgeon of the 1st 
Lancashire Militia, resided in Manchester all his life. He 
retired from active practice about nine years ago, when he 
was in the 76th year of his age. His name will be dis- 
tinctly remembered as the founder of provincial medical 
schools. As early as 1814 he gave regular courses of lec- 
tures on anatomv, with demonstrations and dissections, to 
classes of medical pupils and students. He was the first 
provincial lecturer and teacher whose certificates were ac- 
cepted and recognised by the examining bodies in London. 
The Apothecaries’ Hall began to accept his certificates in 
1817, and the College of Surgeons in 1821. In 1826 he 
built a medical school in Manchester at his own cost, and, 
besides its lecture hall, provided it with one of the most 
commodious and best-fitted dissecting rooms in England, 
and transferred to it his own valuable museum, containing 
nearly 4,000 anatomical specimens and morbid and other 
preparations. He subsequently placed this museum in the 
Manchester Royal School of Medicine. He devoted himself 
to the arduous duties of a public lecturer for twenty years. 
On his retiring from the chair a public dinner was given to 
him by his friends, in October, 1834, attended by almost 
every medical man of reputation in Manchester, and a 
