PRESIDENTS ADDRESS. 403 
SECTION D. 
BIOLOGY. 
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 
By C. J. Martin, D.Sc., M.B., Acting Professor of Physiology 
in the University of Melbourne. 
(Delivered Friday, January 7, 1898.) 
THE HISTORY OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN 
MORPHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY DURING THE 
LAST FIFTY YEARS: 
THE reason I occupy my present position is, as you are aware, 
owing to the unfortunate death of our President-elect, Professor 
Jeffrey Parker, D.Sc., F.R.S. By his death science has lost a first- 
class worker, and one who has been most prominent in forwarding 
the reputation of Australian Biologists. 
Soon after graduating at the University of London, Thomas 
Jeffrey Parker was demonstrator to the late Professor Huxley 
from 1872 until 1880, when he was appointed to the Chair of 
Biology in the University of Otago. During these eight years 
Parker did fine work in co-operation with his chief, Professor 
Huxley, in establishing the teaching of Biology upon rational 
methods. The teaching museum on the type system, and other 
arrangements for practical teaching, were, to a large extent, the 
result of his energies. The duties of the Chair of Biology at Otago 
were fulfilled by Professor Parker until within a few months of 
his death. 
Dr. Parker’s work, as a Biologist, was of the very highest order, 
and did much to enhance the reputation of the University in which 
he taught for so many years. He was a lucid and fascinating 
teacher, the charm of whose teaching was in a large degree due to 
the possession of keen humour, and an accurate and artistic sense 
of proportion combined with perfect good taste. He also possessed 
the capacity of skilful delineation upon the blackboard, which is 
so invaluable to a teacher of Biology. Indeed, his talent in this 
direction was such that it always seemed a pity that these drawings 
should only have such an ephemeral existence. 
