A MASTER IN HIS ART. 27 



they were suggestive of more than all that had 

 ever been proclaimed from British anatomical ros- 

 trums. His translations of Cloquet and Beclard, and 

 his efforts to impress the English mind with the 

 doctrines of Bichat and Geoffroy St. Hilaire, and 

 his own marked tendency to morphology, helped 

 much to create inquiry among his own pupils, and 

 to promote the growth of a philosophic anatomy in 

 Britain. 



Under such a teacher as Knox, Goodsir's anatomi- 

 cal predilections had every chance of being strengthened, 

 for session after session he heard lessons in comparative 

 anatomy from a master of the art, who could harmonize 

 the incongruous forms, typify the natural series, and 

 with a lofty rhetoric clothe the dry bones with fibre 

 and flesh ; — putting in force the springs of motion and 

 all the varied manifestations of life. The museums, 

 private and public, also presented to Goodsir's cognizance 

 the chief zoological data of the Old and New Worlds — 

 data marvellous of themselves, yet indicative of a 

 mightier aggregate — data as varied as the pebbles of 

 the sea-shore, of which but few examples could be 

 fully determined, and those only by a Newton or a 

 Cuvier. If Knox was at home in descriptive and 

 general anatomy, he was rich and rare upon the human 



transmitting the brachial vessels ami median nerve, as you see in the 

 ca/rnivora." This prophecy waa verified within a few weeks in tin- practical 

 rooms, and, of coinsi', to Knox's ^real delight. On an adjacent table the carcase 

 of a huge jaguar was lying, with its natural supra-condyloid foramen, with 

 which to compare the human rarity. This jaguar, so wonderfully tamed by 

 Mr. Carter, had been the greal sensational foci in a large menagerie. — Fide 

 /•;,/. Med. and Surg. Journal, July 1841. 



