176 The American Naturalist. [February, 
knowledge or the scientific knowledge of their own medical attendants, 
profiting from the discoveries which might be made by the dissection 
of the body of their ancestor. 
They argued that public health and the interest of science has for 
a long period of time recognized the need for autopsy and dissection 
in the general education of the medical profession, while, they de- 
clared the study of psycho-physics had been largely ignored. 
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They adopted a constitution, of which the following was the princi- 
pal article : 
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. nounces herein the procedure which shall govern his autopsy. In ordet 
to avoid every obstacle to the execution of his will he will leave at his 
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