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ceedings, communicated with Goodsir from time to 

 time, and in October asked his views as to salary, it 

 being taken for granted by the medical professors that 

 he was the man for the work. Some difficulties arose 

 as to funds for the new project ; the lawyers got their 

 fingers in, and the season passed. Jameson, full of 

 hopes as he was of good- wishes to the conservator in 

 posse, wrote to Goodsir, November 12, 1839 : — " It has 

 occurred to me, that as you will ere long be with us 

 here, you might get up a paper on Comparative Ana- 

 tomy for the 'Wernerian Natural History Society.' 

 This will serve as an introduction to you, and let you 

 be known in the College generally." As further proof 

 of Goodsir's provisional engagement to the University, 

 Jameson mentions his conferring with Alison and other 

 colleagues, and adds — " It will also be desirable that 

 you make as complete a series of marine mollusca, 

 articulata, and zoophytes as you can for the collection 

 here. I presume you have been busy with fishes." It 

 was May 1840 when the money for the conservator- 

 ship was said to be soon coming, and full summer before 

 Goodsir felt it judicious to leave Anstruther for his 

 new vocation in Edinburgh. 



Changes of import had taken place in the Edin- 

 burgh school of medicine since he left in 1835. A 

 Large majority of the extramural lecturers, in fellow- 

 ship with the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, had 

 constituted tli<ii) -< ! \ « - a "Queen's College," in hopes 

 of ;i phalanxed unity helping their interests. The 

 University, though needing fresh blood, had most ex 



