28 DR. JOHN REID. 



cranium and the history of races ; so that, in whatever 

 direction the student aimed his course, Knox could be 

 his guide, philosopher, and friend ; and he was all these 

 to John Goodsir. 



Mr. William Fergusson and Dr. John Reid were 

 Knox's demonstrators. The former looked at anatomy 

 in relation to surgery, and to-day has his reward in 

 being Sergeant-Surgeon to the Queen, and a member 

 of the British baronetcy. 



Few could fail to be struck with Reid's appearance, 

 bucolic gait and manners, ruddy complexion, with long 

 locks of black hair hanging over his neck and coat- 

 collar, broad forehead and open countenance. Under- 

 neath an outer toga that Reid wore, rather shambles- 

 like, in " The Rooms," was a man of large heart and 

 large promise. Reid's forte was physiology, the 

 teaching of which Goodsir fully appreciated, but his 

 greater liking was for the fellowship and friendly 

 counsel of the man himself. One early debt of grati- 

 tude he owed to Reid was a recommendation to 

 Professor Alison, of the institutes of medicine, as 

 the person best fitted to go through a series of dissec- 

 tions in comparative anatomy, which the professor 

 wished to do at that time for his own information. 

 Goodsir naturally felt the honourable distinction of 

 being closeted with the academical physiologist for 

 two hours, demonstrating to him the cuttle-fish. A 

 pretty picture might have been conceived from this 

 episode in the lives of both men ; the philosojDhic 

 Alison watching the operations of the Fife lad in his 



