142 GOODSIR GRATEFUL TO KNOX. 



From time to time Knox corresponded with Goodsir 

 on scientific subjects; and in October 1845, being 

 asked to translate M. De Blainville's work on the Ver- 

 tebrata, solicited his old pupil to join him in issuing a 

 quarterly fasciculus based on the text of the French 

 professor, and incorporating the latest British discoveries 

 in anatomical science. Nothing came of the proposal. 

 In December 1852 Knox presented a copy of his 

 Manual of Anatomy to Goodsir, who acknowledged 

 the pleasure he had in reading it, and added — "I 

 have been astonished to find how much of what I have 

 been in the habit of conceiving as peculiar to my own 

 course of lectures I had derived long ago from you. 

 I assure you I have always been deeply grateful to you 

 as my teacher, and I have always, in public as well as 

 in private, expressed myself to this effect, and shall not 

 less continue to do so henceforward. I have strongly 

 recommended your book to my pupils." Knox consi- 

 dered Goodsir to be his most distinguished pupil""" in 

 anatomy, and naturally attached great value to his 

 opinions on anatomical subjects. 



An .ZEsthetic Club was established in Edinburgh in 

 1851 ; its chief promoters were Professors Kelland and 

 Goodsir, Messrs. D. E. Hay and James Ballantine, 

 and it included Professors J. Y. Simpson, Laycock, 

 and Piazzi Smyth, and also Dr. John Brown [Rah 



* Knox, in his application for the Chair of Physiology in Eclinhnrgh 

 (1841), begged the attention of the patrons to the following list of distinguished 

 pupils whom he had educated : — "R. Boyd, W. Fergusson, T. W. Jones, John 

 and Harry Goodsir, Henry Lonsdale, John Reid, J. H. Balfour, James Dun- 

 can, Douglas Maclagan, Patrick Newbigging, John If. Bennett, etc." 



