goodsir's repute abroad. 189 



toniical and scientific matters ; but lie was expected 

 to be au fait on education, college reforms, fisheries, 

 veterinary medicine, and agriculture, cum omnibus 

 rebus et quibusdam aliis. 



Great confidence was reposed in Goodsir's observa- 

 tions and accuracy, in his museum work, his published 

 writings, and anatomical opinions, theoretical and 

 pathological. Abroad, and in the best schools of 

 Europe, the feeling towards him and the Edinburgh 

 School of Anatomy almost approached the expression 

 of Haller quoad the Monros ; and Goodsir ibi eminet 

 would have been no undue representation of the 

 respect entertained for him for many years. As early 

 as 1845, the publication of his Anatomical and Patho- 

 logical Observations gave him a good position both at 

 home and abroad. This position was enhanced in 

 February 1850, when he issued the first part of his 

 Annuls of Anatomy and Physiology, bearing the loga- 

 rithmic spiral on its cover, and consisting of six sheets 

 of original matter, illustrated in the best style of art. 

 No British anatomist felt satisfied with less than a 

 personal introduction to the Edinburgh professor, as 

 an able representative of the science and its new teach- 

 ings ; and one distinguished German, it is said, 

 thought it a sufficient recompense for his travelling so 

 far as Edinburgh that he had se< n John Goodsir. II<' 

 had a mutual good feeling towards his contemporaries 

 in every walk of medicine, and especially for those 

 win) like himself were showing a love <»(' science, and 

 no Less Qoble endeavour t<> extend tin' lines of dis- 



