156 SIR d. beewsteb's obligations. 



and sound morphological methods the present French 

 school of zoology and comparative anatomy has 

 attained that high reputation which it owes to the 

 labours of Audouin, Milne Edwards, and their 

 pupils. 



When Sir David Brewster was preparing a review 

 of the " Scientific Biography of Goethe/' for the North 

 British Review, February 1864, he applied to Professor 

 Goodsir for his opinion of the German, and for an esti- 

 mate of the value set by Modern Anatomists on Goethe's 

 speculations on Comparative Anatomy and Osteology. 

 Goodsir, always ready to aid his friends, went carefully 

 over Goethe's work, and compared it with that done 

 by his own countrymen as well as his French contem- 

 poraries, and thus was enabled to furnish Sir David 

 with a resume of Goethe's history, quoad Science and 

 Morphology. Goodsir 's estimate of Goethe is ingeni- 

 ously woven into Sir David's review, but the source 

 from which Sir David derived his morphological ideas 

 was not acknowledged in the course of the article. 



Goodsir, whose early love for morphology has been 

 noticed in preceding chapters, kept his eyes open to 

 every new datum furnished to the science ; and all along 

 seems to have had a desire to emulate Eichard Owen, 

 whom he esteemed more highly than any other British 

 authority as a teleologist and comparative anatomist. 



On referring to his essay "On the Morphological 

 Relations of the Nervous System" (vol. ii. art. v.), it will 

 be seen that Goodsir viewed the inquiry as demand- 

 ing " constant reference to the series of embryo as well 



