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a Eeport on the animal remains in the Brixham Cave, and 

 a Eeport on the animal remains found by Captain Lane-Fox 

 in the Terrace-Gravels at Acton and Turnham Green. 



As an Ethnologist, Mr. Busk was no less distinguished. He 

 formed one of a joint Commission of Erench and English 

 savants which met for the purpose of investigating the delicate 

 and now celebrated question of the authenticity of the discovery 

 of a human jaw in the Gravel at Moulin Quignon, near Abbe- 

 ville. He also contributed a number of important papers, chiefly 

 on craniology, to the Anthropological Institute, of which body 

 he was President in 1873 and 1874, and Member of Council from 

 its foundation in 1871 until a short time before his death. 



Euglish science also owes to George Busk excellent transla- 

 tions of Steenstrup's celebrated memoir on the ' Alternation of 

 Generations'; and, in conjunction with Prof. Huxley, of Kolli- 

 ker's ' Manual of Human Histology.' About fifty papers are 

 cited under his name in the Catalogue of the Eoyal Society, 

 exclusive of those in association with other authors. In addition 

 to these labours of personal investigation, he was for a time one 

 of the editors of the ' Microscopical Journal ' and of the ' Natural 

 History Eeview.' 



In recognition of his eminent services to the medical profession, 

 he was elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1871. 

 He held for three years the Hunterian Professorship of Compara- 

 tive Anatomy, and was one of the Trustees of the Hunterian 

 Museum. He was a member of the Senate of the University of 

 London, and for many years Treasurer of the Eoyal Institution 

 of Great Britain ; and was recently nominated one of the 

 Governors of Charterhouse School. On the passing of the 

 Cruelty to Animals Act, for the purpose of regulating the per- 

 formance of vivisectional experiments, he was appointed by 

 Government Inspector of the various Laboratories registered 

 under that Act in England and Scotland, the duties of which 

 he performed with great tact and broad-minded justice. 



He was elected a Eellow of the Eoyal Society in 1850, was 

 afterwai'ds nominated one of the Vice-Presidents, and served on 

 the Council on several occasions. For his researches in Zoology, 

 Physiology, and Comparative Anatomy, a Eoyal Medal was 

 awarded him in 1871. He was a Eellow of the Geological 

 Society, and received from that body the Wollaston and the 

 Lyell Medals in recognition of his palseontological researches. 

 He was a Eellow of the Zoological Society ; and was President 

 of the Microscopical Society in 1818-49, and was also President 

 of the Anthropological Society. 



He was elected a Eellow of this Society on the 1st December, 

 1840, and held the office of Zoological Secretary from 1857 to 

 1868, the duties of which he discharged with zealous attention, 

 and constantly exerted himself to promote the welfare of the 

 Society. He served on the Council and was nominated Vice- 



