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branch fishes at the Zoological Station at Naples. This 

 research gained him a Fellowship at Trinity College. 



He was appointed lecturer on Animal Morphology at 

 Cambridge, and soon became the founder of an extremely 

 vigorous and active school of zoologists. His best known 

 work is, of course, his " Treatise on Comparative Embryo- 

 logy," the first volume of which appeared in 1880, and the 

 second in the following year. It was a masterly review of an 

 enormous number of observations scattered over a world- 

 wide literature, and its production involved a wide and 

 careful reading of multitudinous papers. He had remark- 

 able critical faculty, and a wonderful gift of insight and 

 intuition, so that his book threw light on many a doubtful 

 point. When he was but 27, he was elected a Fellow of 

 the Royal Society, and, if he had chosen, he might have 

 succeeded Rolleston as Professor at Oxford. Edinburgh 

 also coveted him; but he remained faithful to his own 

 University, and, in the spring of 1882, a special Professorship 

 of Animal Morphology was instituted for him at Cambridge. 



Balfour died by a tragic accident in the Alps in the 

 summer of 1882, and in him died a young man of great 

 performance, and even greater promise. He was a man of 

 singular charm, and, as Professor Michael Foster wrote, 

 " he was high-minded, generous, courteous, a brilliant 

 fascinating companion, a steadfast friend. He won, as few 

 others did, the hearts of all who were privileged to know 

 him." 



We must necessarily deal but shortly with a few more 

 names : 



George John Romanes (1848-1894), whose researches on 

 the physiology of the nervous and locomotor system of 

 jelly-fishes and echinoderms, and whose speculations on the 

 principle of Selection will preserve his name. 



Adam Sedgwick (1854-1913), a great nephew of the 

 geologist, by his researches on Peripatus did much to eluci- 

 date the mystery of the Coelom in Arthropods, and so show 

 a possible connexion between this group and lower animals. 

 His views on the cell theory are now coming to their own. 

 For a year or two he was Professor of Zoology at Cambridge, 

 and at the time of his death he was Professor at the Royal 



