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education at York, under the care of his uncle, he became a student 

 at the Hunterian School of Anatomj-, in Windmill Street, under 

 Dr. Baillie and Mr. Cruikshank, where he attracted the particular 

 notice of John Hunter. He subsequently became a resident pupil 

 of Mr. Henry Watson, one of the most eminent surgeons in the me- 

 tropolis, whom he succeeded at the Westminster Hospital in 1793. 

 In 1800 he communicated to our Transactions a paper " On a Pecu- 

 liarity in the Distribution of the Arteries sent to the Limbs of Slow- 

 moving Animals." This was folloAved by many others on various 

 points of comparative and human anatomy, including his papers 

 " On Muscular Motion," and " On the Arrangement and Mecha- 

 nical Action of the Muscles of Fish," which formed the Croonian Lec- 

 tures for 1804 and 1806. He was tlie author likewise of many com- 

 munications in the Transactions of the Linnean and Horticultural 

 Societies and in otlier contemporary journals, on different branches 

 of natural history and physical science *. 



" An Essay on the Connexion between Anatomy and the Fine 

 Arts," led to his appointment, in 1808, to the Professorship of 

 Anatomy to the Royal Academy, a situation which he filled with 

 great advantage to the students during a period of sixteen years. 



Sir Anthony Carlisle was not less distinguished for his know- 

 ledge of anatomy, physiology, and natural histoiy, than for his 

 professional merits, and for his patience and skill as an instructor 

 of medical students. As a practitioner, he was invariably kind and 

 attentive to those who were entrusted to his care, and eminently 

 liberal in devoting his professional services to those who had no 

 adequate means of repaying them. 



Mr. Nicholas Aylward Vigors was born in 1787, at Old 

 Leighlin, in the county of Carlow, where his family had long re- 

 sided. After the usual preparatory education, he proceeded to the 

 University of Oxford, where he became a very diligent and success- 

 ful student. On quitting the University, he purchased a commis- 

 sion in the Guards, and distinguished himself highly at the battle 

 of Barossa, by continuing to bear the colours of his regiment after 

 he was severely wounded. On his return from the Peninsula, he 

 was prevailed upon, by the earnest entreaties of his family, to quit 

 the army ; and he devoted himself afterwards, with characteristic 

 ardour, to scientific and literary pursuits. 



Mr. Vigors was one of the founders and the first Secretary of the 

 Zoological Society, to wliose museum he gave his very valuable 

 collections of ornithology and entomology, which wei'e the two 

 branches of natural history he had most carefully studied. He 

 was the author of a very elaborate paper in the Linnean Transac- 

 tionsf, "On the Natural Affinities which connect the Orders and 

 Families of Birds," in which he attempted to apply in detail the 

 same principles of arrangement that Mr. MacLeay had previously 



[* In 1832, Sir A. Carlisle communicated to us some official documents 

 respecting the health of workmen employed in the sewers of Westminster 

 and the existence of cholera among them, which were inserted in L. and 

 E. Phil. Mag. vol. i. p. 354.— Edit.] 



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