1865-68 'TRICHINA SPIRALIS' AGAIN 171 



which may shortly be called for. The organic 

 character of Eozoon 4 is still contested by some 

 of our experienced names ; but not conclusively, 

 to my mind. 



Now and again a touch of pardonable pride at 

 the verification of his discoveries crops out in his 

 letters. Writing to his sisters in April 1866, he 

 says : — 



* To-night I preside at the Royal Academy of 

 Arts, when a paper is read on Cattle Disease, 

 including that singular form occasioned by my 

 wee worm Trichina spiralis, which some of my 

 friends are at length obliged to own that I did 

 discover.' 



With his friend Mr. (now Sir John) Fowler, 

 who was President of the Institution, he dined with 

 the Civil Engineers. To his sister Maria he sends, 

 on May 16, 1866, an account of the banquet : 

 'After the great dinner H.R. H. Prince of Wales 

 sent to ask me to come to him in the smoking-room, 

 where a select party were gathered for more social 

 chat than the formal banquet and its speech-making 



4 'Eozoon' is a singular of the Geological Record, 1881. 

 structure discovered by Logan The mineral nature of ' Eozoon ' 

 and Dawson in the Laurentian was, however, strongly insisted 

 Rocks of Canada, which was upon by King, Rowney,Moebius, 

 said to be Protozoan, and sup- and others, and the recent re- 

 posed to represent the earliest searches of Gregory and John- 

 form of life preserved on this ston-Lavis upon the lavas of 

 planet. The history of this Vesuvius have practically de- 

 structure may be found in King monstrated its inorganic nature, 

 and Rowney, An Old Chapter 



