150 HARRY GOODSIR MOURNED FOR. 



of Dr. Fallati. In September a consultation was held 

 on his case by Dr. Fallati, Dr. Spiess of Frankfort-on- 

 the-Maine, and Professor Baum of Gottingen, and 

 Goodsir was recommended to spend the winter at Nice; 

 there he remained till May 1854 under the care of 

 Dr. Travis. He again returned to Wildbad, to the 

 use of the baths, and an occasional cupping over the 

 loins'. His case was viewed by his Continental friends 

 as an incipient paralysis of the inferior extremities, ori- 

 ginating in overwork of body and mind, and demanding 

 absolute rest. In the autumn Goodsir returned home 

 in better spirits. 



During his year's absence it was arranged that Dr. 

 John Struthers, then the extra-mural lecturer on 

 anatomy, now professor of that subject in Aberdeen, 

 should have the management of the class, which he 

 conducted so well as to claim from Mr. Goodsir on his 

 return the expression of his high satisfaction. 



Of those who hoped, and hoped so long in vain, for 

 the return of the Franklin expedition that left the 

 shores of England in the summer of 1845, none were 

 so sanguine as Lady Franklin, the noble-minded and 

 affectionate wife of the master mind of the exploring 

 party, and Professor John Goodsir. It was 1854 before 

 Goodsir could realise the untimely fate of a long-looked- 

 for brother, whose life, if spared, would have been so 

 precious to science. Dr. Martin Barry, with true con- 

 sideration, wrote (October 25, 1854), from Beccles in 

 Suffolk, the following letter : — " I beg to offer my 

 friend Professor Goodsir a line of deep condolence. 



