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chiefly abroad, in France, Germany, Belgium, and Holland. He 

 had a great taste for the study of languages, both practical 

 and philological, and 3poke the principal European tongues 

 fluently. 



Dr. Grant's lectures were reported in the early Numbers of 

 the ' Lancet ' (1833-31), and he afterwards published a treatise 

 on Comparative Anatomy which embodied the substance of them. 

 The work came out in parts, but was not completed. He was 

 also the author of the article "Animal Kingdom " in Todd's ' Cy- 

 clopa?dia of Anatomy.' The titles and dates of his commnicatious 

 to periodical works are given in the Royal Society's ' Catalogue 

 of Scientific Papers.' They are thirty-five in number, and ex- 

 tend from 1825 to 1839. 



In August 1874 Dr. Grant sufli"ered from a dysenteric attack, 

 for which at first he would have no medical advice ; and 

 although subsequently, by appropriate treatment, the virulence 

 of the disease was subdued, his strength was exhausted, and he 

 died on the 23rd of that month at his house close by Eustou 

 Square. 



Dr. Grant was never married. He knew of no surviving re- 

 latives. Three of his brothers, whose deaths he has recorded, 

 were military officers. Of these, James, a Lieutenant in the 

 German Legion, fell at the seige of Badajoz in 1811 ; Alexander, 

 Captain in the Madras Engineers, died in the Burmese war in 

 1825 ; and Francis, Captain in the Madras Army, died at Edin- 

 burgh in 1852. 



By his will Dr. Grant bequeathed the whole of his pro- 

 perty, including his collections and library, to University Col- 

 lege, in the service of which he had sj)ent the greater part of 

 his life, and to the principles of which he was sincerely at 

 tached. 



He was elected a Fellow on the 21st of November, 1820. 



Dr. John Edward Gray was born at Walsall in the year 1800, 

 so that at the time of his death he had just completed his 75th 

 year. He was the son of Mr. S. F. Gray, the author of the well- 

 known ' Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia,' and the grandson of 

 Mr. Samuel Gray, a seedsman in Pall Mall, who possessed consi- 

 derable scientific knowledge, translated the ' Philosophia Bota- 

 nica ' of Linnaeus for his friend Mr. Lee, of Hammersmith, and 

 assisted him in the composition of his ' Introduction to Botany,' 



