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INDEX. 



Asynchronism of the auricular contrac- 

 tions in the rejjtilian heart, 443-445 



Austrian Government ask from Goodsir 

 advice for the natural history equip- 

 ment of the Novara, 173 



Autopsy of Professor Goodsir by Dr. 

 Chiene and Mr. Stirling, 195 



Baird (Principal) employs Barclay at 

 Bo'ness, 25 



Balancing body when standing on one 

 leg, 227 



Balanus tintinnahulum, paper on the 

 larva? of, 75 



Balfour (Professor J. H.), obituary notice 

 of Goodsir, 76, 197 ; at 21 Lothian 

 Street, 104 



Barclay (Dr. John) anecdote of, 25 ; his 

 collection and pupils, 363, 364 



Barnacle, separate sexual system of, 

 106 



Barrow, at Kingsmuir, opened, 47 



Barry (Dr. Martin), researches of, in 

 histology and embryology, 67, 68; 

 discoverer of parent cell, 114 ; a 

 candidate for chair of ' ' Institutes of 

 Medicine," 121 ; letter to Goodsir on 

 fate of his brother, 150 



Basement membrane of Bowman, 115 



Beale (Dr.) germinal matter, 90 



Beauty, on the natural principles of, 

 143 



Bee, instinct of, 316 



Bell (Sir Charles), models of ulcers, 23 ; 

 discovery of the functions of the 

 nerves, 86 ; first settling in London, 

 100 



Bennett (Dr. J. H.), professor of the 

 Institutes of Medicine, 33 ; at 21 

 Lothian Street, 105 



Bereiss (Professor) collected Lieberkuhn's 

 injections and specimens, 170 



Berlin, his friends and studies at, 169 



Bcroe pileus and new species, anatomy 

 of, 51 



Bible to be studied, Goodsir' s advice to 

 his brother, 34 



Bichat, "AnatomieGenerale," 86; each 

 special tissue has a physiological pro- 

 perty of its own, 112 ; his brain 

 remarkably non-symmetrical, 184 



Biological discovery in Germany, 65 



Blandin on milk-teeth, 41 



Bone, sections of, made to investigate 

 arrangement of fibres, 175 



Bonellia, two species, natives of Medi- 

 terranean, 426 



Books, the last that he studied, 193 



Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Good- 



sir, secretary of, 75 ; vice-president, 

 76 



Botany, his taste for, revived, 75 



Bowman on the structure and use of 

 the Malpighian bodies of the kidney, 

 115 



Brain of man in geometrical proportions 

 and mass, superior, 184 ; of Pro- 

 fessor Goodsir, 195 ; complex struc- 

 ture of, 291 ; action in, 296 



Brewster (Sir David), 45, 49 ; his 

 opinion of Goodsir, 54 ; review of 

 Goethe's scientific biography, 156 ; 

 keen vision, instance of, 176 



British Association, Goodsir's first at- 

 tendance and paper at, 35, 36 ; at 

 Glasgow in 1840, paper by Goodsir 

 and Forbes, 72 ; meeting at Edin- 

 burgh in 1850, president of physio- 

 logical and zoological section, 190 



Brotherhood of Friends of Truth, 60, 61 



Brown (Dr. John), assistant of Dr. 

 Cull en, 16 ; (Dr. John), member of 

 ^Esthetic Club, 142 ; (Robert), on 

 nucleus of vegetable cell, 85. (Dr. 

 Samuel), as a chemical philosopher 

 and thinker, 68, 69 ; at 21 Lothian 

 Street, 104, 106 



Brunonian system not favoured in Bri- 

 tain, 16 



Brute, psychical essence in, 295 



Burial-place of Professor Goodsir, 194 



Burke's skin made into a tobacco-pouch, 

 163 



Burns (Allan) as a lecturer, surgeon, and 

 anatomist, 359, 362 



Busk (George) on parasitic growths, 

 113 



Cecum, on changes produced in the, 

 by ulcers, etc., 76 



Cancer mcenas and C. bernhardus, joint 

 paper on their metamorphoses, by 

 John and Harry Goodsir, 75 



Caprella, paper on new species of, 75 



Carpenter (Dr.), articles on secretion in 

 Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physi- 

 ology, 115 ; once a candidate for chair 

 of " Institutes of Medicine," 121 



Cams, a work of, gives first impetus to 

 Goodsir's researches in developmental 

 anatomy, 24 ; acknowledges his in- 

 debtedness to Goodsir, 162 



Casts of dissections made by Goodsir, 

 23,34 



Casts of the layers of muscles, 131 



Cat and eagle, 57, 58 



Catopterus, genus of fossil fishes, de- 

 scribed by Goodsir, 49 



