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teaching staff of the Department of Comparative Anatomy 

 at Oxford. Such junior posts carry with them a mere pit- 

 tance in the way of remuneration ; but, fortunately for the 

 University, there is no lack of young men of first-rate talent 

 ready to serve in the ranks of science on a slender ration. 

 It may even be that hard conditions help to make the 

 pioneer. Certainly, for a man of Jenkinson's strenuous and 

 disinterested temper, the way was clear ahead, once a definite 

 function was assigned him. 



Six years after taking his Bachelor's degree he published, 

 as the firstfruits of his researches, a study entitled ' Early 

 Stages of the Development of the Mouse ';* this being partly 

 the result of work done at Utrecht in the laboratory of the 

 illustrious Dutch zoologist, the late Professor Hubrecht. 

 Five years later he became Doctor of Science, a distinction 

 awarded at Oxford for writings held to display originality in 

 some high degree. Almost from the first his chief interest 

 had lain in embryological questions, and it was appropriate 

 that, in the year after he had received his doctorate, the 

 post should be created for him of University Lecturer in 

 Comparative and Experimental Embryology. A few years 

 later, in 1909, his College, Exeter, on the staff of which he 

 had already been serving as lecturer, was proud to elect him 

 to its sole Research Fellowship, which, tenable as it is for but 

 a limited term of years, can boast a long list of distinguished 

 holders. This year was marked by the publication of his 

 Experimental Embryology, the first comprehensive English 

 text-book on the subject, and one that is not likely soon to be 

 superseded. In 1913 another text-book, of no less excellent 

 quality, appeared under the title Vertebrate Embryology. So 

 much must suffice as a bare record of the steps by which he 

 was steadily mounting upwards in the scale of usefulness and 

 honour. 



Then the war broke out. Jenkinson was now past forty years 



1 Quart, Journ. Micr. Sci., 1900. 



