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annual report. 
REPORT. 
The Council of the Bristol Naturalists’ Society, in presenting 
their Annual Report, cannot but refer, in the first place, to the 
heavy loss the Society has sustained by the recent death of its 
president, Dr. Henry Edward Fripp. Dr. Fripp had been con- 
nected with the Society from its commencement, and had been 
president since the year 1876, when he was elected to that office 
in succession to the late Mr. William Sanders. He died from an 
attack of apoplexy on the 23rd of March, after a few hours’ illness. 
Dr. Fripp was born in 1816, and passed through his curriculum 
of medical education at the Bristol Medical School, being a pupil 
of the late Dr. Symonds, at the General Hospital. Becoming a 
member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1838, he began prac- 
tice in Wales as medical officer to the iron works at Yniscedwyn, 
near Swansea. Shortly afterwards he went to Germany as medical 
officer to the iron works at Nisterthal, in the Duchy of Nassau. 
By nature a mechanical genius, Dr. Fripp took so great an interest 
in these works, that, in addition to his professional responsibilities, 
at the request of the directors, he accepted the office of chief 
engineer, and held his post till 1848, when the works were closed 
owing to disturbances consequent upon the unsettled state of the 
political atmosphere. After this. Dr. Fripp spent some years on 
the Continent, in medical and scientific study and research, and in 
1855 took the degree of M.D. at Wurtzburg. Returning to 
England, he obtained, in 1856, the diploma of membership of the 
Royal College of Physicians of London, and settled in Clifton as 
a physician. In 1859 he was elected physician to the Bristol 
General Hospital, and in 1873, on retiring from the more active 
duties, he was appointed consulting physician to that institution. 
