LIFE OF DR. ROLLESTON. XXXI 



and water down for about twenty minutes. She was too weak 

 to be sick or less would have done. No evil followed. Was 

 not that fine practical Chemistry ? She has lived through it all, 

 and is likely I should judge now to live, as if that business 

 could not nothing else is likely to kill her, and she is now on 

 Quinine and Cod-liver oil, and the Pig-nature is showing itself, 

 salt having killed the Tiger-cat, as salted meat usually does the 

 Carnivora. I dwell on this professional bit of my life, as the 

 Professorial is now so much overlaying the former. It is very 

 demoralising this having to work two lines simultaneously, but 

 I think I see my way now toward getting rid of the former of 

 the two. Possibly this confession, which I do not wish to be 

 made public, may cause you to lose any little confidence you 

 might have had in me in my capacity of Practising Doctor. I 

 will send you by this post, however, an Oxford almanac in which 

 you will see me to full extent in my Professorial capacity, and 

 being at the same time always at your service in the other too, 

 I am your affectionate brother.' 



The new move which was to make Rolleston's future career 

 one of instruction, was his appointment to the recently created 

 Linacre Professorship of Anatomy and Physiology, an office 

 belonging to the great scheme of development of Science in 

 Oxford, which was just becoming embodied in the University 

 Museum. This was, from the first, not a museum in the modern 

 sense of a collection of rare and interesting objects, but rather 

 intended to realise in nature as in name the idea of the original 

 Museum of Alexandria, where mathematicians, astronomers, and 

 chemists were gathered together under the same roof engaged in 

 research and teaching, where an anatomical school formed the 

 basis for the education of physicians, and a great library put 

 within the student's reach all the knowledge hitherto amassed. 

 Such a Museum of Science the authorities of the University 

 established, not without many difficulties by the way, for the 

 ornate building in which Mr. Ruskin's ideas found expression 

 proved of vast cost, so that the economical resistance of financiers 

 mingled with the disfavour of those who were jealous of putting 



