LIFE OF DR. ROLLESTON. XXXIX 



and invite a few of us to look round some case of specimens, and 

 by a little practical demonstration contrive to throw a life and 

 interest into the dead and dried preparations, where before all 

 was dark and unintelligible.' Nor did his teaching cease with 

 Term-time, for in the Long Vacation he used to organise a 

 sea-side working party to dredge and to study the anatomy of 

 marine animals, when the enthusiasm for biological investigation 

 he could arouse in fellow-students and pupils is still admiringly 

 remembered. 



The following reminiscences by Professor Louis C. Miall, of the 

 Leeds College of Science, contain an accurate estimate of Dr. 

 Holies ton's qualities as a teacher and lecturer : — ' I well recollect 

 my first introduction to Professor Rolleston, then on a visit to 

 Bradford. He found me trying to explore the intricacies of 

 Biology without direction. At that moment I was dissecting a 

 chimpanzee. He took up the subject easily, and spent a great 

 part of two days upon it. No pains were spared in demonstra- 

 tion and explanation ; the dry anatomical facts were insisted 

 upon, but enlivened by plenty of discursive talk. To a mere 

 beginner, ignorant and almost helpless, this instruction was 

 memorable indeed, and after fifteen years I look back upon it 

 with deep gratitude. When I had the good fortune to meet 

 Professor Rolleston in after years, he was always full of friend- 

 liness ; to tell him anything new, or to point out to him a new 

 process, was a service overpaid by the kindest acknowledgments. 

 A question, or merely that attention which it was a pleasure to 

 give, would encourage him to talk on any point of anatomy or 

 natural history, and always so pleasantly and with such mastery 

 of his subject that the lesson was easily remembered. One little 

 trick of manner often amused me. He would give his friend full 

 credit and more for any bit of knowledge which he happened to 

 possess, and would speak deferentially, as if subject to correction, 

 to a man infinitely his inferior. "To you who have studied so- 

 and-so," he would say, " these things are perfectly familiar, but I 

 well remember the surprise with which I learned that," &c. It 

 was useless to protest against this imputation of superior know- 



