196 THE SENATUS ACADEMICUS. 



part, which cells, indeed, seemed bigger than in a 

 healthy cord in the same locality. In the cervical 

 region they were smaller and fewer in number than in 

 the lumbar part, and with yellowish contents, which 

 did not take the carmine tint. Both in the lumbar 

 and cervical regions the columns were greatly atrophied, 

 and with an almost complete disappearance of the axial 

 cylinders of the nerve-fibres ; sections through the 

 columns exhibited an irregularly reticulated appear- 

 ance, with intermixed granular matter : corpora amy- 

 lacea were scattered in considerable numbers through- 

 out the substance of the cord. 



The Senatus Academicus of the University of 

 Edinburgh, at their meeting of 9th March, adopted the 

 following minute : — " The Senatus deeply regret the 

 loss which they have sustained by the death of Professor 

 Goodsir, who for twenty years had ably discharged the 

 duties of professor of anatomy. They feel that the 

 University has been deprived of a most distinguished 

 man of science, who, by his knowledge of human 

 and comparative anatomy, had acquired for himself a 

 European reputation, and who, by his prelections and 

 writings, had done much to maintain the reputation of 

 the University." 



A writer in the Pall Mall Gazette, who seems 

 to have comprehended Goodsir's character very fully, 

 says — " Since the days of John Hunter no greater 

 master of anatomical science, no keener investigator of 

 phenomena, no more comprehensive grasper of gene- 

 ralisations, no clearer or more effective expositor, ever 

 dedicated himself to the great subject of anatomy, 



