88 SHARPEY AND THE BRITISH SCHOOL. 



a few in these latter days have assiduously sought and 

 gained reputation through the agency of the microscope 

 applied to the investigation of organisms. The reve- 

 lations of this instrument came as a great tide in 1840 

 that wafted Goodsir and many others to havens of dis- 

 covery, and those proud positions in science which 

 many seek but few obtain. Though Germany took the 

 lead, many able cultivators occupied English ground. 

 Eanking with the London school, and early in the 

 field, Sharpey,'"" Bowman, Carpenter, Gulliver, f Busk, 

 Simon, and Paget may be worthily cited as represent- 

 ing every department of the cellular theory ; whilst in 

 the Edinburgh school Martin Barry and Allen Thom- 

 son shone in embryology, and J. Hughes Bennett in 

 both physiology and pathology, and Goodsir traversed 

 a wider range human and comparative. Of late years 

 the list of those who have aided the cause of cell-inter- 

 pretation, or added to the general stores of histological 

 facts and hypotheses, is greatly extended ; indeed of 



* Dr. Sharpey lectured on anatomy in Edinburgh from 1832 to 1836. 

 He systematically used the microscope for the purpose of illustrating his 

 anatomical course. Previous to 1830, he made his valuable observations on 

 "Cilia," and used Woollaston's doublet l-20th of an inch focus. Dr. Allen 

 Thomson followed Sharpey's method of teaching, and his embryological re- 

 searches demanded the use of the microscope. Goodsir had an Oberhaeuser to 

 aid him in his inquiries into the development of the Invertebrata of the 

 Firth, and also the occasional use of Dr. John Reid's microscope, and one of 

 Charles Chevalier's manufacture belonging to the writer, and probably also that 

 of Dr. Martin Barry. 



f Mr. Gulliver's translation of Gerber's Anatomy in 1842, and his own 

 notes and observations and defence of the English School of Anatomists, 

 served an excellent purpose. In editing the works of William Hewson, F.R. S., 

 for the Sydenham Society in 1846, he indicated that Hewson had nearly anti- 

 cipated Schwann's discovery of the cell as far back as 1773. 



