CONTENTS 



OF 



THE FIRST VOLUME 



CHAPTER I 



i 804-24 



Parentage— Childhood — Youth . . . . 1 



PAGE 



CHAPTER II 



1824-33 



Edinburgh University — Prosector to Abernethy in Lon- 

 don — M.R.C.S. and Assistant Curator of the Hunterian 

 Collection at the College of Surgeons, 1826 — Lecturer on 

 Comparative Anatomy at St. Bartholomew's, 1828 — Cata- 

 logue of the Hunterian Museum, 1830-34 — Introduction 

 to Cuvier — Visit to Paris, 1831 — ' Memoir on the Pearly 

 Nautilus,' 1832 . - . . 26 



CHAPTER III 



1833-36 



Eton in 1833 — Professor of Comparative Anatomy at St. 

 Bartholomew's, 1834— F.R.S., 1834 — Marriage to Caroline 

 Clift, 1835— Early Married Life ..... 69 



