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respects, such as the mode of delamination of the somatic muscula- 

 ture, he was led to conclusions which have been confirmed on other 

 grounds. His morphological views, both in the study of the bones 

 and muscles, were based on ontology rather than on embryology ; and 

 his views on homology were largely, though not slavishly, founded 

 on those of Owen. 



The furtherance of Anatomical Science always occupied a promi- 

 nent place in his thoughts: in 1866 he had, in connection with 

 Sir W. Turner, started the " Journal of Anatomy and Physiology," 

 of which for some years he was an active editor. About twenty 

 years later he took a leading part in the organisation of the 

 Anatomical Society, of which he was the first President. 



It should be remembered that all this work was done while he was- 

 engaged in a large and laborious practice in the Eastern Counties. 

 Yet even to the last his interest in the advancement of anatomical 

 science never flagged. He had lively memories of the way in which 

 the importance of anatomy had been impressed upon him at the 

 threshold of his professional study by his master, Crosse of Norwich,, 

 who had himself been in his youth a favourite pupil of Macartney, 

 and afterwards a demonstrator in the Dublin School before he 

 settled in Norwich. It was, therefore, with a sort of filial affection 

 that Humphry regarded the Macartney specimens which formed 

 the greater part of the Cambridge Museum when he became 

 Professor in the University. 



T. C. A. 



SIR JOHN BUCKNILL. 18171897. 



John Charles Bucknill was born at Market Bosworth in 1817, 

 and died at Bournemouth in 1897. He was educated at Market 

 Bosworth, Rugby, and University College, London, where he 

 graduated with honours, 1840, first in Surgery, third in Medicine, 

 Fellow in 1850, Council in 1884, benefactor at death; Lie. Soc. of 

 Apothecaries, 1840; M.E.C.S., 1840; Lie. Eoyal College Physicians, 

 1853; Fellow, 1859; Council, 1877; Censor, 1879; Lumleian 

 Lecturer, 1878; Fellow Eoyal Society, 1866; knighted, 1894. He 

 commenced his career as House Surgeon, University College, London ; 

 thence he entered upon a small practice near Eaton Square, where- 

 from the London fogs banished him to the Superintendency of the 

 Devon Co. Lunatic Asylum. Here he worked with good effect and 

 made his mark both as an experimentalist and a writer, which latter 

 experience led him to start and edit the "Asylum Journal," now 



