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3. On the condition of Animal and Human Life. 



4. On the characters of Organised and Inoro-anised 

 Bodies, and on the general arrangements, structures, 

 and uses of the Textures and Organs. 



5. On the Principles of Classification and Geogra- 

 phical Distribution. 



Wearied with the heavy labours of a long winter's 

 session that had just terminated, and having his usual 

 summer course on anatomy to look to daily, there was 

 no professor in the' University so unfortunately circum- 

 stanced as to time, labour, and health ; yet he made 

 no demur to his colleague's wish, and offered no claim 

 of exemption from so large a responsibility as the con- 

 ducting of the natural history chair for three months. 

 Though his own health was manifestly impaired, he 

 could not bear to see Jameson's class in abeyance ; 

 moreover, he looked with a AVellingtonian spirit to the 

 " carrying on " of the medical department of the Edin- 

 burgh University in all its entirety. He would not 

 read Jameson's lectures, or be content to illustrate his 

 notes to the class, as everybody but himself would nave 

 done, acting as a locum tenens, but struck out a path 

 of his own altogether independent and free. 



The course was strictly Goodsir's. The lectures 

 were original in character and in force, and the treat 

 ment of the whole subject strikingly novel. They 

 excited large attention in the University, ;ii ili.it time 

 rich in numbers of good students, many of \\ bom raised 

 themselves to eminence both at 1 ie and abroad. 



