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are not very shining in like cases in this part of Her 

 Majesty's dominions." In October 1853 J. Victor 

 Cams of Leipsic addressed Goodsir : — " I beg you to 

 accept of my System of Animal Morphology as a 

 token of my great esteem, which I long very much to 

 express to you personally. As a great part of the 

 anatomical facts on which it is found is collected 

 either in England, or at least from English specimens, 

 it is but a matter of gratitude that I lay the results 

 now before you who contributed so kindly to enlarge 

 my small collection." 



Next to his love of teaching was the formation of 

 a museum that should be second to none in Britain. 

 When appointed curator of the anatomical collection 

 of the University, his first effort was to separate the 

 strictly teaching department from the general series ; 

 and in two years he had made such progress that he was 

 able (in October 1845) to report — "The entire collec- 

 tion embodies the science as far as it extends, so that 

 an individual studying the collection from the first to 

 the last series may acquire a knowledge of the science 

 from the structures themselves, instead of from books." 

 Harry Goodsir, before leaving for the Arctic Eegions, 

 had presented the University with such specimens 

 from his collection, in spirits, as were required for the 

 series of Invertebrata, but the greatest number in the 

 curator's hands at that time were the joint collection of 

 himself and Edward Forbes. In addition to John 

 Arthur"" as an assistant, he had Mr. Melville (now 



* John Arthur, the janitor of the Professor's, was a living presence in 

 the Anatomical Rooms of the University. In early manhood he was a 



