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The Presidency thus commenced lasted, like that of Lord 

 Derby, for twenty years. To a certain extent these terms of 

 office may be taken as carrying out respectively the views of 

 Sir Humphry Davy and Sir Stamford Raffles,"^ as shown in 

 the letter of the first President quoted on p. 24 ; and Lord 

 Derby's influence persisted, though in diminishing force, up 

 to, and even after, this time. There was no abrupt break, nor 

 anything like a deliberate reversal; the change was gradual, 

 but none the less sure. Bionomics were neglected in favour 

 of cabinet studies ; and the results became evident in the 

 prosectorial work, the literature, and to some extent in the 

 Menagerie. 



A. H. Garrod entered on his duties as Prosector on 

 January 1, 1872, and held the post till his death on 

 October 17, 1879. He was an enthusiastic worker; but a 

 comparison of the titles of his papers with those of his pre- 

 decessor will show that their conceptions of the duties of 

 the office were not quite the same. It is not improbable 

 that there was some change in the views of the Zootomical 

 Committee ; at any rate, it is clear that the new President 

 considered the investigations of the Prosector should be con- 

 ducted entirely from the morphological side. Over his initials 

 " W. H. F.," he contributed a sympathetic obituary notice of 

 Garrod to Nature (October 23, 1879), in which the following 

 passage occurs : 



It is, indeed, probable that physiology is the subject to which he 

 would most willingly have devoted his attention, had not his energies 

 been turned to the pursuit of morphology by his receiving the appoint- 

 ment in January, 1872, of Prosector to the Zoological Society. This 

 appointment is one which, perhaps more than any now existing, comes 

 near to an ideal endowment of research. 



In the view of the Council, as set forth in the Keport 

 issued in 1866, and cited on p. 127, morbid anatomy was to be 

 the chief duty of the Prosector ; so that here was quite a new 

 departure which has since been followed, with the result that 

 it has been found necessary to appoint a pathologist to do the 

 work for which the office of Prosector was instituted. 



* In the one case the work of the bionomist, in the other that of the 

 systematist. 



