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count of his writings, but also as a professor, he was regarded 

 as one of the brightest ornaments of the University. That he 

 communicated a powerful impulse to the study of comparative 

 anatomy, is proved by the many excellent inaugural disserta- 

 tions, which partly describe the remarkable preparations in the 

 anatomical museum, and partly originated from them. A feel- 

 ing has often been remarked in the greatest men of unwilling- 

 ness to communicate to others their own methods, and to culti- 

 vate talents which might interfere with themselves. In this 

 respect Rudolphi had great merit, for he communicated not 

 only his instructions but his enthusiasm to his pupils. He was 

 easy of access to the young ; and although those with recom- 

 mendations might receive no particular assistance from him, 

 yet every one who exhibited good qualities, received every ad- 

 vantage without any introduction whatever. Students, and 

 our own as well as foreign medical men and naturalists, found 

 themselves at home in his library ; and as he urged forward 

 the young by his instructions, animated them by his advice, 

 and, with the liberality of a Banks, aided them by means of 

 his library, of the anatomical museum, and the objects which 

 he himself had collected, zealous students were not awanting 

 who devoted themselves to anatomy under his particular super- 

 intendence. His enthusiasm for the science, his love of truth, 

 his noble and disinterested character, his violent opposition to 

 false directions of investigation, carried his students forward 

 with a power that was irresistible. Such qualities in a teacher 

 make an indelible impression on the youthful spirit, and com- 

 municate an impulse which ceases only with life itself; and I 

 shall never forget the impression I received from Rudolphi : 

 it was he who laid the foundation of my love for anatomy, and 

 he who decided the direction of my pursuits. I enjoyed for a 

 year and a half his instructions, his counsel, his paternal friend- 

 ship ; and when I left him, he presented me with many means 

 of prosecuting my scientific studies ; his kind interest accom- 

 panied me afterwards when our views often widely differed, 

 and when he saw unwillingly that I occupied myself with the 

 more abstract subject of the physiology of the mind, rather than 

 with the investigation of the anatomy of the organs of the 

 senses, such as that of the eyes of insects and spiders. With his 



