BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. xi 
never actually entered there, having had awarded him in the same 
year an exhibition for Natural Science at St. John’s, the first offered 
in that subject by the College. He commenced residence at Cam- 
bridge in the October term of 1868. 
At that time the opportunities and methods of biological 
teaching at Cambridge were not so perfect as they now are, and 
with his already existing anatomical and physiological knowledge, 
Garrod soon found out that he could very well dispense with a 
good amount of the ordinary routine of College and University 
education. Indeed the greater part of his Tripos work was done 
by him at home, in London, during the vacation, for at Cambridge 
_he devoted himself largely to the enjoyment of the social life of the 
place. Hisscientific work there consisted more of original research © 
than of the usual course of study, for it was during his residence 
at Cambridge that he carried on, in great part, the series of experi- 
ments on the causes of the varying temperatures of the human 
body, the results of which were subsequently made public. The 
circulation of the blood, too, he studied energetically, by means of 
the sphygmograph and other appliances, which he improved in 
various ways by his great mechanical genius. Photography like- 
wise took up some part of his attention, and when the new chapel 
at St. John’s was opened, in 1869, he succeeded in taking, from 
the rooms of a friend overlooking the scene, an instantaneous 
view of the procession as it passed though the first court. It was 
whilst still an undergraduate that his first physiological papers 
were published in the “Journal of Anatomy and Physiology,” and 
in the “ Proceedings of the Royal Society.” He devoted consider- 
able time also to the study of zoology, working in the University 
Museum, where he laid the foundation of his knowledge in the 
subject which was afterwards to chiefly occupy his life. His 
maiden zoological paper “On the Telson of the Macrurous 
Crustacea” (infra, p. 93) was indeed written and published during 
_ his undergraduate career at Cambridge. 
His College had meanwhile not been blind to the ability of 
their undergraduate member, for in 1870 he was elected a founda- 
tion scholar, and in the “ May” examinations in Natural Science 
of that and the subsequent year, his name appears in the first class 
on each occasion. 
In December, 1871, Barco “went out” senior in the Natural 
Science tripos, his companions in the first class being three in 
number, R. Lydekker—who has since distinguished himself as a 
