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cherished ideas and discoveries, connected with the circulation of 
the blood, had been arrived at independently by an American 
physiologist (Keyt) with no knowledge of his previous work on the 
same subject. 
In his new departure, the anatomy of birds soon became 
Garrod’s favourite study. This was a subject that had not at all 
kept pace with the rapid advance made of late years in most other 
branches of biolegical science. With the exception of some im- 
portant papers by our countrymen, Professors Parker and Huxley, 
by M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards, and by the great German natur- 
alist, Johannes Miiller, little had been done either at home or 
abroad in this department of ornithology, since the decease of the 
illustrious German, Nitzsch. With the large amount of material at 
his disposal, Garrod was soon able to work out,on a far more extensive 
scale, many of Nitzsch’s observations, as well as to add a great 
number of entirely new facts. The myology of birds in particular 
attracted his attention, and about two years after his appointment to 
the Prosectorship, he drew up the paper on the classification of birds, 
in which the taxonomic value of the now-celebrated “ambiens” 
muscle was brought forward for the first time. This paper was read 
before the Zoological Society in the session of 1873-4, and pub- 
lished in their “ Proceedings”: an abstract of it, doubtless from his 
own pen, may be found in “ Nature,” Feb. 12, 1874, pp. 290—2. 
In November, 1873, Garrod was elected to a Fellowship at his 
College, the first time that such an honour had been given there 
_ toa Natural Science man; and in the summer of the succeeding 
year (1874), he was elected Professor of Comparative Anatomy at 
King’s College, London, in succession to Prof. Rymer Jones, F.R.S., 
and this post he continued to hold till within a few weeks of his 
death. A report of his introductory lecture to the evening class of 
Zoology at that institution in the winter session of 1874 may be 
found in “ Nature” for Oct. 8th of that year. Garrod had for some 
time past acted as one of the sub-editors to the last-named journal, 
and he continued to do so for some years. Many of the articles 
and reviews dealing with biological subjects published in the 
columns of that paper, during that period, were from his 
pen. 
In 1875 Garrod was appointed Fullerian Professor of Physiology 
at the Royal Institution. His connection with that establishment 
had commenced at least as far back as 1874, when he delivered, on 
Feb. 6th, an address on “The Heart and the Sphygmograph,” an 
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