GOODSIR HIGHLY SPOKEN OF. 161 



" To GooJsir I owe entirely my morphological training, 

 nor am I less sensible of the advantages which I have 

 enjoyed in being frequently indoctrinated by him in 

 those great principles of morphology which he illus- 

 trated in his communication to the British Associa- 

 tion in 1856." The Galway professor speaks of his 

 Edinburgh teacher's " explicit morphological nomen- 

 clature" — e.g. "somatome," "sclerotome;" and further 

 adds, "The only theory of the segmentation of the 

 skull, as far as I know, in which the teachings of 

 embryology have been taken into account, and been 

 sought to be explained, is that of Professor Goodsir." 

 In one of his interesting lectures published in the 

 Lancet (September 5, 1863), Professor Huxley says of 

 Goodsir — " In this country there has been another 

 exception to the mere blind developments of the votaries 

 of Oken ; I allude to Professor Goodsir of Edinburgh, 

 and the able young men who have risen from his 

 training. He is the only man, so far as I know, either 

 on the Continent or here, who has understood the value 

 of that which took place between 1837 and 1840, or 

 thereabouts, in Germany, and has endeavoured to 

 correct the error of the mere Okenist Hue of specula- 

 tion by the severe criteria of embryology." 



Dr. Eugh Falconer (16th February 1857) wrote 

 from London to Goodsir : — "1 have been reading your 

 papers <»n morphology, as given in the Edinburgh 

 ] } Jiilos()j)lin'(il .Imi m<il, with greal interest, and have 

 been much impressed with the force, logical precision, 



and closeness of the argumenl cardinal virtues which 

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