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which showed how general the law of unity of type is 

 within certain limits. He drew a distinction between 

 those permanent teeth developed from the primitive, 

 and those developed from the secondary groove. 



Being requested to publish his essay on the teeth 

 in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, he 

 visited Edinburgh to arrange the engravings, when 

 Professor Jameson sought' an introduction to him 

 through Mr. Nasmyth, and showed him great kindness, 

 offering him the loan of one of Ehrenbcrg's famous 

 microscopes, the discoveries made with which had 

 startled Europe, and soliciting his company to look over 

 the Natural History Museum. Fresh from the honours 

 of the British Association, and now seated by the side of 

 the Wernerian philosopher, implied that the Goodsir 

 star was in the ascendant. The joint survey and talk 

 about the museum had a meaning that Goodsir did 

 not fail to interpret ; indeed, both professor and practi- 

 tioner seemed mutually pleased with each other, and 

 from that October morning continued in happy alliance 

 on the highway of science till the severance of the life- 

 link of the aged professor. Though soon back to 

 Anstruther and the drudgery of physic, Goodsir had 

 resolved to look for a broader platform than "the 

 Kingdom of Fife." Not that Fife was commercially 

 slow or mentally stagnant, for the University of St. 

 Andrews had strong genetic forces in Sir D. Brewster 

 and others of scholarly aims, many of whom had been 

 induced by other gales than fortune t<» se1 up their 

 Penates in thai retired historic nook — sy Ivestrem tenui 



