XVi BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 
work was as a rule directed rather to the discovery of new points 
bearing on questions of classification than to detailed description 
of forms only interesting for their rarity, and agreeing in most 
points with the typical species. His method was to examine as 
large a number of species of any particular group as possible, to 
note the characters in which they differed, and from these con- 
siderations to endeavour to arrive at some conclusions regarding 
their general position or mutual affinities. 
When the Royal Commission appointed by the Government 
examine into the question of vivisection was conducting its 
inquiries in 1875, Garrod was, with most of the other leading 
physiologists of England, examined before it, and a report of his 
evidence will be found on pp. 106—108 of the Blue-book that 
contained the results of their inquiries. Amongst other things, 
he narrated how he had, on one occasion, performed “ probably the 
largest operation in anesthetics” ever effected, by chloroforming a 
Giraffe. Garrod had been very anxious to utilise the opportunity 
afforded by having to kill one of these animals some time pre- 
viously, by taking tracings of the blood-pressure in its carotid 
arteries, which, after a considerable struggle with the great animal, 
much expenditure of chloroform, and a good deal of difficulty in 
properly fixing the necessary instruments, he succeeded in 
doing. 
In 1876, being then just 30 years of age, he was elected a 
Fellow of the Royal Society. 
At this time the expediency of preparing a general work on the 
“Anatomy of Birds” was suggested to Garrod by some of his 
friends. This work was to be, in his own words, “ exhaustive,” 
and to contain the results of all his previous papers and subsequent 
experience. For the completion of this he soon set to work with 
great vigour, and on two occasions he received sums of money 
from the Government Grant to aid him in the publication and 
preparation of this book, which, unfortunately, he was not destined 
to finish. 
In 1876 Garrod was appointed examiner in Zoology for the 
Natural Science Tripos at Cambridge, a post which he continued 
to fill for the next two years, and which again brought him into 
intimate connection with Cambridge life. 
The subject of his Fullerian lectures in 1877 was “The Human 
Form: its structure in relation to its contour.” In them it was 
his object to describe to a general audience those parts of the 
