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devotion of the Jew of Tarsus. The fact of his 

 proximity to the Alps, and the cities of Genoa, 

 Florence, and Rome, with all their classic associations, 

 lent a charm to his pursuit of Italian literature. 



Having imbibed a taste for travel, he journeyed to 

 Berlin in August 1857, and professedly for a holiday 

 of its kind. There he made a favourable acquaintance 

 with Johannes Muller, that noble German and still 

 nobler son of science, now no more ; there also he 

 formed a closer intimacy with Du Bois Beymond, who 

 happily still lives to illuminate the chemico-electrical 

 phenomena of organised bodies and other intricate 

 paths of physiology. Goodsir had carried a fine speci- 

 men of Malapterurus for the benefit of his friend Du 

 Bois Beymond's experimental investigations, in which 

 he also took part, and a very pleasant intercourse 

 sprang from this scientific fraternization. He had 

 other specimens of the Malapterurus conveyed from 

 Edinburgh to his Berlin friend, and in return for these 

 complimentary attentions was put in the way of 

 obtaining philosophical apparatus. His studies in the 

 anatomical museums of Berlin that autumn were very 

 constant or almost daily. His note-book, with every 

 page filled (now before the writer), sufficiently testifies 

 to the extended and careful observations of the 

 osteological departments of the museum, and with 

 special reference to his morphological studies- — the gist 

 of which had been Laid before the British Association 

 the year previously. A great number of his memor- 

 anda refer to ichthyology, and specially tin- Clupeidse, 



