mathematics in the " Collegium Romanum " iu Rome. In his later years 

 he greatly added to the collection that still bears his name, " Museum 

 Kircherianum," in Rome. Classical scholar, Egyptologist, astrologist, 



KIRCHER'S " EXPERIMENTUM MIHABILE," FROM THE ORIGINAL FIGURE. 



mathematician, &c., his name remains also associated with the " experi- 

 mentum mirabile " on a fowl the early experiment on hypnotism. 

 The portrait is taken from his remarkable work, Mundux Subterraneus 

 (1665). and the experiment from his PliysioL Kircheriana (1680). I 

 need only refer to the recent work on this subject by my friend 

 Professor M. Verworn, of Clottingen. 



JOHANNES MULLER. 



1801-1858. 



ONE of the greatest Biologists of the last or any century was-born 

 the son of a shoemaker at Coblenz, one year before Sharpey, 

 and just one after the death of Bichat. His early academic 

 days were spent at Bonn (1819), where the study of theology, as is 

 not unfrequently the case, led him to medicine. As showing his 

 physiological bias his first essay which gained a prizeRespiration 

 of the Foetus, was published in 1823. Miiller went to Berlin to 

 pass his examination, and, while there, came under the influence 

 of Rudolphi. Miiller himself says of Rudolphi, " Er hat meine 

 Neigung zur Anatomie mitbegrundet, und fiir immer entschieden." 

 In 1824 he returned to Bonn, became a Privatdocent, Professor in 

 1826. In 1833 he was called to Berlin as Director of the Anatomical 

 School and Museum. He died suddenly in 1858. 



He taught anatomy, human and comparative, pathology. 

 Physiology, and comparative anatomy, however, were his beloved 



