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For a time he conducted the microscopic demonstrations 

 himself. Dr. Drummond, the author of the article 

 " Sympathetic Nerve" in the Cyclopaedia of Anatomy 

 and Physiology, was his first assistant to be entrusted 

 with the duty, and for eleven years (1856-67) the course 

 was conducted by Mr. Turner — the present professor 

 of anatomy. Goodsir looked upon the demonstrations 

 of tissues not as a separate subject, but as a depart- 

 ment of anatomy constituting an essential part of his 

 course. Perfect teaching was his great aim, and this 

 he believed and often emphatically expressed could 

 only be accomplished by employing the microscope. 

 It was this feeling, no doubt, which induced him to 

 place on the first page of his " Dissecting-Boom Note- 

 Book " the Horatian maxim — 



" Segnius irritant aminos demissa per aurem, 

 Quam qua sunt oculis subjecta fklelibus, et quae 

 Ipse sibi tradit Spectator." 



His systematic teaching, marked by conciseness 

 and method, was well calculated to call forth the 

 energies of the student ; and each year afforded larger 

 and larger proofs of its entire success. There was 

 nothing wanting in his system of instruction, and 

 nothing better had been offered than the Goodsirian 

 mode of furnishing the anatomical mind with a high 

 standard of knowledge both theoretical and practical, 

 A ;i lecturer, Goodsir appeared less happily endowed. 

 lie had no smartness of manner, no captivating cour- 

 besy, no rhetorical flourish, to win the favours of a 

 class, vet no professor was more popular in the l'ni- 



