xii f BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE, 
paleontologist in the work of the Geological Survey of India— 
Lewis, and Warrington, in the order given. 
At this time the office of Prosector to the Zoological Society 
of London was vacant, owing to the resignation of its former 
occupant, Dr. Murie. Through the influence of his Cambridge 
friends, Garrod was brought forward as a candidate for this post, to 
which he was elected, on June 20th, 1871, though he had not at that 
time finished his “ Tripos.” On the conclusion of that examina- 
tion he returned to London, and immediately began to devote him- 
self, with his accustomed energy and ability, to the adequate per- 
formance of the duties of his new post. He commenced his 
attendance at the Gardens a few days before the close of the year 
1871. Up to this time, as already stated, Garrod’s work and 
interest in biological science had been chiefly physiological, and 
his knowledge of zoology generally little more than that of an 
ordinary “ Tripos” student. But thanks to the opportunities of 
his position, and his own genius and diligence, he was enabled in 
a very short time to sufficiently master the main outlines of the 
comparative anatomy of the highest Vertebrata—Birds and Mam- 
mals—to present his first paper to the Zoological Society, one 
written in conjunction with Mr. Frank Darwin, whom he had 
known at college, in little more than two months after commenc- 
ing his prosectorial duties. This paper was succeeded in the 
course of the year by four others. From this point indeed, 
zoology became the main study of Garrod’s life, though he still 
retained his interest in physiology. Indeed he had hoped, and 
intended no doubt, when he became Prosector, to carry on his 
physiological researches on a still larger scale, as evidenced by some 
experiments made during the earlier part of his work at the 
Gardens. But the accumulation of material, and the fascination 
of new lines of research, gradually but surely drew him away 
from further active physiological work, and after his appointment 
as Prosector, we find but three or four original papers from his pen 
on purely physiological subjects, the last being one read before the 
Royal Society in April, 1874. 
Physiology, indeed, was his “ first love,” and towards the close 
of his life, he often, in conversation with his friends or relatives, 
insisted that he was, primarily, a physiologist, and only became a 
zoologist by the accident of his being appointed to the Prosector- 
ship. Nothing gave him greater pleasure during his last illness 
than the fact that conclusions the same as some of his own most 
