xxxvi Obituary Notices of Felloivs deceased. 



interest which he threw into his work, all conspired to make him a popular 

 and successful teacher. 



In his first year as Professor, the 1 Journal of Anatomy ' was started by 

 him in collaboration with Sir G. M. Humphry, of Cambridge. In the first 

 volume the names of Newton, Perceval Wright, and J. W. Clark appear as 

 co-editors, but these merely ornamental names were dropped in the second 

 volume. The two editors at first divided the work between them, with the 

 aid of Prof. McKendrick on the physiological side, but gradually Humphry 

 relinquished his share of the editorial work, and by 1875 the whole of the 

 responsibility was thrown on Turner, although Humphry's name appeared on 

 the title page until his death in 1896. In 1897, Turner associated with 

 himself three new colleagues, to whom he committed the" active editorial 

 duties, but to the end he retained his post as senior editor,. and every sheet 

 of the Journal passed through his hand until the end of 1915. 



During his tenure of the professorship his activity in anatomical research 

 was extraordinary. He produced over 200 memoirs on anatomical subjects, 

 all of which were records of strenuous original work in very diverse branches 

 of the subject. He had been led early in his studies to observe the varieties 

 of placentation in different groups of mammals and, between 1871 and 1889, 

 published a large number of valuable papers embodying his observations. 

 On this subject he gave lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1875-6,. 

 which were published as a volume. 



In 1874 he began his studies on the anatomy of Cetacea and produced a 

 number of interesting and important memoirs which are painstaking and 

 valuable additions to the literature of a difficult subject. As, through the 

 agency of his pupils, scattered throughout the world, he was able to procure 

 crania of many races of men, he published on these a number of monographs,, 

 the earliest of which appeared in 1866, and the last, on Scottish crania, as 

 late as 1915. One of the most interesting of his anthropological memoirs is 

 one on the classification of the races of mankind by the varying forms of the 

 pelvic brim. The observations on which this was based are published in his 

 account of the human remains obtained during the " Challenger " Expedition,, 

 upon which he wrote a monograph (Vol. XVI, Pait 47). In the same series 

 he also wrote the account of the Cetacean bones (Vol. I, Part 4). 



Turner early became known among his colleagues as a cautious, firm, and 

 capable man of business, and in 1873 he was elected by the Universities of 

 Edinburgh and Aberdeen as their representative on the General Medical 

 Council. In this position he gained the well-merited reputation of being a 

 wise and prudent councillor who took a statesman- like view of the subjects- 

 with which the Council was concerned. When the Presidency of the Council 

 became vacant by the death of Sir Eichard Quain, he was elected to fill the 

 office, and as Chairman, he introduced many measures which increased the 

 usefulness and efficiency of the Council. During the years 1878-80, he was- 

 Dean of Faculty in his University, and in 1881 he served on the Medical 

 Acts Commission. 



