30 PROFESSOR JAMESON. 



betokened the man of gravity and precision, if not the 

 abstract thinker. In society his manner was cool, re- 

 served, and taciturn ; but he was a man of his epoch, 

 and ever zealous for the extension of his science. He 

 belonged to the conservative school of natural history. 

 Though agitated by the bold innovations of Berzelius, 

 and the greater discoveries of Mitscherlich in his special 

 walk of mineralogy, and oft refreshed by the advancing 

 tide of biology, upon which new sciences like palae- 

 ontology were being wafted, he showed in his latter 

 years a less responsive call to the tendencies of the 

 age, now looking beyond the museum era of stuffed 

 birds and the colouring of tattooed New Zealanders. 

 John Goodsir and his friends Edward Forbes and 

 Hugh Falconer, were among the chief of Jameson's 

 pupils in the fourth decade of the century; all ac- 

 knowledged their master's worth, and helped to extend 

 his fame, and all, like himself, have paid their last 

 tribute to nature. Jameson in his lecture-room can 

 never be forgotten. Appearing as if enveloped in his 

 professor's gown, his head of black hair was brushed 

 stiffly upward, and gave bold relief to his brow ; his 

 sallow, strong-lined physiognomy, indicative of the 

 wisdom of the sage and the appeal of the preacher ; 

 his head thrown back and fixed ; his slow, precise, and 

 oracular utterances, each sentence of import being ac- 

 companied by an emphatic throwing of the folds of 

 his gown across his left breast were all grand adju- 

 vantia to the occupant of a platform ; and assuredly 

 no man looked more like a philosopher than Jameson. 



