ANNUAL REPORT. 
77 
He occupied the chair of physiology in the Bristol Medical School 
from 1857 to 1869. Dr. Fripp was an industrious worker in 
science, both medical and general. The published proceedings 
of our own Society contain many valuable contributions from his 
pen, several of them relating to microscopy, and others to insect 
anatomy. The Bristol Microscopical Society also benefited by 
his labours, his knowledge of the microscope, both in regard to 
its theory and its practical use, being most intimate and complete. 
During the year 1878-79, he was president of the Bristol Medico- 
Chirurgical Society, and his inaugural address, which was published 
by request, was a learned dissertation on The Doctrine of 
Contagium Vivum in its relation to Parasitic Disease.” Dr. 
Fripp was an ardent lover of music, and was himself an accom- 
plished musician. As illustrating both his musical and mechanical 
skill, it may be mentioned he possessed an organ which he had 
himself built. As a physician. Dr. Fripp was held in the highest 
regard both by the members of his own profession and by his 
patients. Of sound judgment, fertile in resources, and full of 
tender sympathy, he won both confidence and love. Passing from 
this brief record of the life and work of our lamented president, 
the Council regret to have to report the removal from the neigh- 
bourhood of some valued members. Professor Letts, F.R.S.E., 
has been appointed to the chair of chemistry at Queen’s College, 
Belfast, and Dr. Tildon (whom the council congratulate on his 
newly-acquired distinction of F.R.S.) has accepted a similar 
appointment at Birmingham. Mr. J. Norman Collie, who had also 
given promise of good service to the Society, has followed Prof. 
Letts to Belfast. Altogether the losses to the society by resigna- 
tion, removal, or death have numbered, during the year, sixteen ; 
but as seventeen new members have joined, our numerical strength 
has been somewhat more than maintained. The total number of 
members is at present 169. During the past session, the General 
and Sectional Meetings of the Society have been held as usual, 
