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strated in every part of its anatomy. His numerous 

 preparations, injected or otherwise, of the alimentary 

 canal, showing the various modifications in the struc- 

 ture of the digestive organs generally in the mammalia, 

 are beautifully displayed. In exhibiting the nervous 

 system of the Aplysia, and in his minute injections of 

 the lungs of reptiles and the gills of fishes, he was 

 highly successful. Upwards of a thousand specimens 

 of comparative anatomy are strong evidence of the 

 reality of his work. 



In 1851 Goodsir meditated publishing a pamphlet 

 headed : — " Proposals for the Establishment of Medical 

 Fellowships, to be held by Graduates in Medicine, to 

 act as Medical Tutors in the University of Edinburgh." 

 And in 1852 he framed the principles of an "Ec- 

 clesiastical, Theological, and Social Reform." His 

 programme occupied several heads ; the first was 

 " Presbytery unfavourable to learning." He was not 

 satisfied with the Scottish Universities, either in their 

 preliminary training or the more finished instruction 

 offered their alumni. He sought for a more genuine 

 scholarship and higher mental discipline, in which the 

 tutorial system should play a prominent part. Fel- 

 lowships he thought should be established as rewards 

 or endowments f»»r winners in the race of every branch 

 of learnin£. Thou id i eaiivr for his own science — 

 medicine, and the interests of the university he had a 

 Btrong wish for reform in the ecclesiastical government 

 of Scotland, and seems to have been imbued with the 

 spirit <>t" his grandfather in all matters theological. 



