22 MEMOIR OF JOHN BARCLAY, 



subject discussed — a subject which not only at this 

 early period, but through life, appears to have attract- 

 ed a particular share of his attention. 



Having graduated, he did not consider himself as 

 exempted from the necessity of further instruction, 

 but rather, stimulated by the progress he had made, 

 gathered fresh energy for renovated exertion. He 

 therefore immediately repaired to London, and put 

 himself under the tuition of Dr. Marshall of Thavies 

 Inn, an eminent anatomical teacher in that city, 

 from whose instructions he always gratefully ac- 

 knowledged that he had reaped much advantage, 

 and under whose inspection he formed the rudiments 

 of his Museum, which afterwards proved so great an 

 attraction to his class. 



His stay in London, however, was not very pro- 

 tracted, for he returned to Edinburgh in 1797; and 

 in November of that year commenced his career as 

 a Lecturer on the science he had so thoroughly 

 studied. His first class-room was a small apartment 

 in the High School-yards,, which he was enabled to 

 fit up by the kind assistance of his excellent and 

 steady friend Sir James Campbell. At the outset, 

 his pupils were few, and he had most formidable ob- 

 stacles to encounter. Dr. Monro, secundus, then 

 filled the Anatomical Chair in the University, with 

 the highest reputation ; and his able assistant, Mr. 

 Fyfe, gave a second or evening course upon the same 

 subject. Mr. John Bell, likewise, his former mas- 

 ter, was then in the full career of professional fame, 

 yet the Doctor felt nothing appalled, but, conscious 



