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Asylum for Criminal Lunatics at Broadmoor ; and here for two years 

 he carried on his investigations concerning the nematoids, which led 

 to a monograph, in which one hundred new species were described. 

 During this time and afterward, Dr. Bastian conducted an interesting 

 and important series of investigations on the specific gravity of the 

 brain. In 1866 he left Broadmoor, came to London, married, became 

 lecturer on pathology and curator of the museum at St. Mary's Hos- 

 pital Medical School. He now took up the study of the diseases of 

 the nervous system as a whole, rather than the section of it met with 

 in asylums. He was elected Assistant Physician to St. Mary's Hos- 

 pital, and then shortly left it to accept the professorship of Pathologi- 

 cal Anatomy and the position of Assistant Physician to the Hospital 

 of University College. The same year he was also appointed Assist- 

 ant Physician to the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epilep- 

 tic. He has thus been in the midst of active and pressing professional 

 studies, but Dr. Bastian has still found time for those laborious and 

 purely scientific inquiries for which he is most extensively known. 

 The following is, a list of his chief memoirs and works, in the order of 

 their publication : 



" On the Structure and Nature of the Dracunculus or Guinea-Worm." " Trans, 

 of Linn. See," vol. xxiv. 



" Monograph on the Anguillulidoe, or Free Nematoids, Marine, Land, and Fresh- 

 water; with Descriptions of 100 New Species." "Trans, of Linn. Sec," 



vol. XXV. 



" On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Nematoids, Parasitic and Free ; with 



Observations on their Zoological Position and Affinities to the Echinoderms." 



" Philosophical Transactions," 1866. 

 " On the Mode of Origin of Secondary Cancerous Growths." Medical Mirror^ 



vol. i., No. X. 

 " On the Specific Gravity of the Difi"erent Parts of the Human Brain." Journal 



of Mental Science^ January, 1866. 

 "On the so-called Pacchionian Bodies." "Trans, of the Microsc. Soc," July, 



1866. 

 " On tli'e Pathology of Tubercular Meningitis." Edinburgh Journal of Medical 



Science, April, 1867. 

 " On a Case of Concussion-Lesion of the Spinal Cord, with Extensive Ascending 



and Descending Secondary Degenerations." "Trans, of Medico-Chir. Soc," 



1867. 

 " On Cirrhosis of the Lungs." " Reynolds's System of Medicine," vol. iii. 



Also the sections on "Pathology and Morbid Anatomy" of the following joint 

 articles (by Dr. Reynolds and Dr. Bastian) appeared in " System of Medi- 

 cine," vol. ii. : " Cerebritis ; " " Non-Inflammatory Softening of the Brain ; " 

 " Congestion of the Brain ; " " Hypertrophy of the Brain ; " " Adventitious 

 Products in the Brain." 



"Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms." Maemillan, May, 1871. 



" The Beginnings of Life," 2 vols., Appletons, 1872. 



"Evolution and the Origin of Life," Maemillan, 1874. 



" On Paralysis from Brain-Disease in its Common Forms," Appletons, 1875. 



