114 THE ACTION OF THE NUCLEATED CELL. 



case gave him position and authority as a minute and 

 accurate observer in little explored fields, and where 

 natural history pursuits afforded light to strictly 

 pathological questions. 



In May 1844 Goodsirwas appointed Demonstrator 

 of Anatomy to Professor Monro. In October 1845 

 he furnished the curators of the University Museum 

 with a long report of the progress made during his 

 period of office as their assistant, and offering large sug- 

 gestions for the further improvement and application 

 of the museum to the wants of the different medical 

 professors in their teachings. Two months sub- 

 sequently (December 1845), on the resignation of Mr. 

 Mackenzie, the Medical Faculty appointed him the 

 curator of the entire museum. As demonstrator and 

 curator he had now attained an excellent position. 

 During this session he gave a course of twelve lectures 

 to the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution on Human 

 Physiology, not without a protest being made by Pro- 

 fessor Monro against his doing so. 



The work done by Goodsir during these five 

 laborious years (1840-45), and mainly recorded in the 

 second volume, will speak for itself, and no doubt 

 will receive a just interpretation at the hands of men 

 of science. His papers on " Centres of Nutrition " and 

 "Secreting Structures " are among the most valuable 

 and original of the series. In the first-named he 

 awards the initiative steps and discovery of the parent 

 cell to his friend Martin Barry. His numerous 

 observations, extending over a wide range of glandular 



