10 THE GOODSIR ALLIANCES. 



Penny (in Lady Franklin's ship), in search of his 

 brother Harry; and Archibald, the youngest son, 

 studied medicine with eminent success in the best 

 schools of Europe, and then came home to die — too 

 truly a victim to his zeal in anatomical pursuits. 



The Goodsirs of Anstruther had formed family ties 

 with — 1st, the historical Forbes of Culloden — many 

 letters of the Lord President Forbes are now in the 

 Goodsirs' archives ; 2d, with John Monro of Milton, 

 the father of Dr. Monro, Primus and founder of the 

 Anatomical School of Edinburgh ; 3d, with Dr. John 

 Gregory of Aberdeen, and his son Dr. James, the author 

 of "the Conspectus Medicines Theoreticee, who, living in 

 Edinburgh, became allied with the Eev. Archibald 

 Alison, the " Man of Taste," and father of the historian 

 of Europe, and William Pulteney, the distinguished 

 professor of the University of Edinburgh ; Uh, with 

 Dr. Joshua Mackenzie, the father of Henry Mackenzie, 

 the "Man of Feeling," and others of position in and 

 around the Scottish metropolis. These direct and colla- 

 teral blood-affinities of John Goodsir might constitute a 

 pretty family chapter, in which the philosophic, the 

 medical, and the historic, would find large space and 

 mention ; and his being linked with the Monros the 

 most curious of all — the Monros who established the fame 

 of the Anatomical Chair of the Edinburgh University, 

 and continued to hold it for three generations, and then 

 resigned their place and trust to him (John Goodsir), 

 to uphold, extend, and dignify. The genealogical web 

 of prominent Goodsir warp, with its skeins of chivalry 



