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dissection of the mollusc, the young naturalist modestly- 

 pointing out the parts of the anatomy and their uses ; 

 age and youth changing their respective positions in 

 the field of teaching, yet pleasantly in concert exploring 

 organisms for the elucidation of one of Nature's plans, 

 by which to unravel the type of a larger series. 



Mr. Syme was the surgical teacher and attached 

 friend of Goodsir ; and no one of the Edinburgh school 

 has done more for its surgical fame than the present 

 distinguished professor of clinical surgery. Adorning 

 his position by numerous improvements in his art, as 

 acknowledged throughout Europe, he has, in his forty 

 years' experience as a lecturer, contributed largely to 

 the surgical indoctrination of the British mind both at 

 home and abroad. Acting as dresser, and often as 

 assistant, to Mr. Syme, Goodsir enjoyed the best surgi- 

 cal education in Edinburgh. Nor did he overlook the 

 great props of his medical building, and that of materia 

 medica was far from the least. Professor Christison's 

 lectures were a daily treat of admirable instruction, as 

 thousands of graduates, distributed over the world, 

 could readily testify. Goodsir never forgot the kind- 

 ness of Dr. John Macintosh, a popular extramural 

 lecturer on practice of physic, from whom he derived 

 much excellent information. 



If anatomy and surgery were the corner-stones of 

 tli*> Goodsir fabric, the ornamental column was natural 

 history, then taught by Professor Ivoburt Jameson, a 

 disciple of Werner and a mineralogist of distinction. 

 In his measured walk and fixed countenance, Jameson 



