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give up some of his practice. But, like a true naturalist as he 

 was, he allowed his love of science to triumph over a desire for 

 worldly gain, and it was well known to his friends that some of 

 his best scientific work was accomplished during actual physical 

 suffering, furnishing him, as he said, with a pleasant distraction 

 from his ailments. One after another he completed most 

 valuable papers on the morphology of the skull, dealing in turn 

 with the Ostrich (Proc. Koy. Soc. 1865, and Phil. Trans. 1866), 

 Parrot (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865), Common Fowl (Phil. Trans. 1869), 

 Frog (ib. 1871), Eel (' Nature,' 1871), Crow, Tit, Sparrowhawk, 

 and Thrush (Monthly Microscopical Journal, 1872-73), Salmon 

 (Phil. Trans. 1873), Pig (ib. 1874), Woodpecker (Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 1875), Passeres (Trans. Zool. Soc. 1875), Batrachia (ib. 1876), 

 Salamanders (ib. 1877), Sharks and Skates (ib. 1877), Snakes 

 (Phil. Trans. 1878), Lizards (ib. 1879), Chamceleons (Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. 1880), Crocodiles (ib. 1883), and Green Turtle ('Challenger 

 Eeports,' Zoology, vol. i.), Sturgeon and Lepidosteus (Phil. Trans. 

 1882), Edentata and Insectivora (ib. 1886), and the development 

 of the wing of the Common Fowl (ib. 1888). A portion of the 

 above work was summarised in 1877, with the aid of his friend 

 Mr. Bettany, and, under the title of the ' Morphology of the 

 Skull,' was published in a single volume. 



Meantime, in 1864, he had joined the Zoological Society, 

 when the Council paid him the high compliment of remitting the 

 usual composition fee, an example which was followed by the 

 Council of the Linnean Society a few years later. In 1865 he 

 was elected a Fellow of the Boyal Society, receiving soon after- 

 wards the Boyal Medal, and in 1871 became President of the 

 Boyal Microscopical Society, to whose ' Transactions ' he had 

 already communicated important papers.* In 1874 he was 

 appointed Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy at the 

 Boyal College of Surgeons, where he lectured for ten years, 

 giving, in his own quaint and discursive way, the results of much 

 original research. His Hunterian Lectures for 1884, on " Mam : 

 malian Descent," were published in book-form the following year. 



This by no means exhausts the summary of work done by 

 him. Ornithologists especially owe him a debt of gratitude for 



' : '- For his presidential addresses to this Society see the ■ Monthly 

 Microscopical Journal,' 1872, pp. 89—97, and 1873, pp. 97—102. 



