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The immediate chiefs of the dissection room were 

 nominally my old travelling companion and tutor, 

 William Bowman and John Simon, but Bowman had 

 other College work to perform, and was rarely present. 

 Mr. Simon, afterwards Sir John Simon (b. 1816), of 

 the Board of Health, was practically the only Director. 

 His quaint phrases, full of scientific insight and 

 poetical in essence, were most attractive. His 

 collected essays and reports are models of literary 

 style applied to scientific subjects. He died three 

 or four years ago, quite blind, at a very advanced age. 



All the Professors whose lectures I had to attend, 

 were notable men. Dr. Todd (1809-1860), the 

 Professor of Physiology, gave a powerful impulse to 

 his branch of science. He was then engaged in 

 collaboration with Bowman in bringing out their 

 Encyclopedia of Physiology, which was a remarkable 

 work for those days. The signs of advance were all 

 about and in the air. The microscope had rather 

 suddenly attained a position of much enhanced im- 

 portance ; it was now mounted solidly, with really 

 good working stages and with good glasses. Powell 

 was the principal maker of it, and a Powell's microscope 

 was an object almost of worship to advanced students. 

 The manufacture of microscopes has rapidly and 

 steadily advanced since those times, both in cheapness 

 and in goodness : what was then a rarity is now in 

 the possession of every student. 



I enjoyed the lectures of Daniell (1790-1845) on 

 Chemistry ; he was so simple and thorough. In those 

 times the galvanic cell was becoming perfected, and 

 the three forms then invented, the Smee, the Daniell, 

 and the Grove (the latter being by my valued friend 



