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some of the native races of America. On his return he pub- 

 lished a book on " Oregon, its CHmate, Resources and People," 

 for which he received a formal vote of thanks from the 

 Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon. In 1879 ^^^ ^^^ 

 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year 

 was appointed Assistant Registrar to the University of London, 

 which post he held till 1881, when he succeeded his friend and 

 teacher, Professor Rolleston, in the Linacre Professorship of 

 Human and Comparative Anatomy at Oxford. He had in the 

 same year married the youngest daughter of Mr. J. Gwyn 

 Jeffreys, F.R.S., the distinguished conchologist, a lady who 

 shared his tastes, accompanied him on his travels and assisted 

 him in his work, and attended him with unremitting devotion 

 during the four years of illness which preceded his death. 



On his arrival at Oxford Professor Moseley had not a few diffi- 

 culties to contend with. Under Professor Rolleston the subjects 

 of Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Comparative Anatomy 

 were combined in the Linacre Professor ; but on his death the 

 subjects were divided, the Linacre chair going to Human and 

 Comparative Anatomy, whilst a separate chair was created for 

 Physiology. This involved an entire remodelling of the 

 previous course, of the collections in the Museum and of the 

 examinations ; tasks which Moseley set about with great energy. 

 He engaged the services of Mr. Sydney Hickson, one of 

 Balfour's pupils, as assistant and demonstrator, introduced all 

 the latest improvements in microscopical technique, organised 

 a complete course of elementary lectures and practical instruc- 

 tion, and himself spared no pains to make the lectures for the 

 advanced students as thorough and comprehensive as possible. 



Oxford, for some reason, has not of late years been happy 

 in her attempts to rearrange the course for students of Natural 

 Science, and the separation of the Physiological from the 

 Morphological school had the effect of drawing away many 

 students, who were preparing for a purely medical career, to 

 the former subject. But the excellence and force of Moseley's 

 lectures, and the thoroughly practical arrangement of his course, 

 attracted a fair number of students from the first ; a number 

 which continued to increase until his illness and consequent 



