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  gieal 
  Society. 
  In 
  1837 
  be 
  was 
  appointed 
  Fullerian 
  Professor 
  of 
  Phy- 
  

   siology 
  in 
  the 
  Royal 
  Institution, 
  which 
  office 
  he 
  held 
  for 
  the 
  usual 
  period 
  

   of 
  three 
  years. 
  At 
  a 
  later 
  time 
  he 
  was 
  appointed 
  by 
  the 
  Trustees 
  of 
  

   the 
  British 
  Museum 
  to 
  the 
  Swiney 
  Lectureship 
  on 
  Geology, 
  the 
  tenure 
  

   of 
  which 
  is 
  limited 
  to 
  five 
  years. 
  In 
  1841 
  he 
  delivered 
  the 
  Annual 
  Ora- 
  

   tion 
  before 
  the 
  British 
  Medical 
  Association. 
  In 
  1836 
  he 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  

   Fellow 
  of 
  the 
  Royal 
  Society 
  of 
  London. 
  He 
  was 
  also 
  a 
  Fellow 
  of 
  the 
  

   Linnean, 
  Zoological, 
  and 
  Geological 
  Societies. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Grant's 
  vacations 
  were 
  spent 
  sometimes 
  in 
  Scotland, 
  but 
  chiefly 
  

   abroad, 
  in 
  France, 
  Germany, 
  Belgium, 
  and 
  Holland. 
  On 
  more 
  than 
  one 
  

   of 
  these 
  occasions 
  he 
  was 
  accompanied 
  by 
  an 
  intelligent 
  and 
  favourite 
  

   Hindoo 
  pupil, 
  Dr. 
  Chuckerbutty, 
  who 
  afterwards 
  became 
  a 
  Professor 
  in 
  

   the 
  Government 
  Medical 
  College 
  of 
  Calcutta. 
  Dr. 
  Grant 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  

   had 
  a 
  special 
  liking 
  to 
  Holland, 
  which 
  he 
  visited 
  and 
  revisited 
  several 
  

   times 
  — 
  partly, 
  no 
  doubt, 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  its 
  scientific 
  institutions 
  and 
  

   zoological 
  museums, 
  but 
  largely 
  also 
  for 
  the 
  sake 
  of 
  acquiring 
  the 
  Dutch 
  

   language. 
  In 
  like 
  manner 
  he 
  afterwards 
  spent 
  his 
  vacation 
  in 
  Copen- 
  

   hagen, 
  and 
  worked 
  hard 
  at 
  Danish. 
  Indeed 
  it 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  noted 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  

   a 
  great 
  taste 
  for 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  languages, 
  both 
  practical 
  and 
  philological, 
  

   and 
  spoke 
  the 
  principal 
  European 
  tongues 
  fluently. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Grant's 
  lectures 
  were 
  reported 
  in 
  the 
  early 
  Xumbers 
  of 
  the 
  'Lancet' 
  

   (1833-34), 
  and 
  he 
  afterwards 
  published 
  a 
  treatise 
  on 
  Comparative 
  Anatomy 
  

   ■ 
  which 
  embodied 
  the 
  substance 
  of 
  them. 
  The 
  work 
  came 
  out 
  in 
  parts, 
  

   but 
  was 
  not 
  completed. 
  He 
  was 
  also 
  author 
  of 
  the 
  article 
  "Animal 
  

   Kingdom 
  " 
  in 
  Todd's 
  4 
  Cyclopaedia 
  of 
  Anatomy.' 
  The 
  titles 
  and 
  dates 
  of 
  

   his 
  communications 
  to 
  periodical 
  works 
  are 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  Royal 
  Society's 
  

   ' 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  Scientific 
  Papers.' 
  They 
  are 
  35 
  in 
  number, 
  and 
  extend 
  

   from 
  1825 
  to 
  1839. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Grant 
  was 
  a 
  devoted 
  lover 
  of 
  music, 
  and 
  attendance 
  at 
  operas 
  and 
  

   concerts 
  was 
  one 
  of 
  his 
  chief 
  enjoyments 
  in 
  his 
  latter 
  years. 
  

  

  In 
  August 
  1874 
  Dr. 
  Grant 
  suffered 
  from 
  a 
  dysenteric 
  attack, 
  for 
  which 
  

   at 
  first 
  he 
  would 
  have 
  no 
  medical 
  advice 
  ; 
  and 
  although 
  subsequently, 
  by 
  

   appropriate 
  treatment, 
  the 
  virulence 
  of 
  the 
  disease 
  was 
  subdued, 
  his 
  

   strength 
  was 
  exhausted, 
  and 
  he 
  died 
  on 
  the 
  23rd 
  of 
  that 
  month 
  at 
  his 
  

   house 
  close 
  by 
  Euston 
  Square. 
  He 
  was 
  buried 
  in 
  Highgate 
  Cemetery, 
  

   attended 
  to 
  the 
  grave 
  by 
  a 
  few 
  old 
  friends 
  and 
  attached 
  pupils, 
  among 
  

   whom 
  was 
  his 
  friend 
  and 
  former 
  companion 
  in 
  travel, 
  Dr. 
  Chuckerbutty, 
  

   who 
  was 
  then 
  in 
  England, 
  and 
  two 
  months 
  later 
  was 
  destined 
  to 
  follow 
  

   his 
  venerated 
  master. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Grant 
  was 
  never 
  married. 
  He 
  knew 
  of 
  no 
  surviving 
  relatives. 
  

   Three 
  of 
  his 
  brothers, 
  whose 
  deaths 
  he 
  has 
  recorded, 
  were 
  military 
  officers. 
  

   Of 
  these, 
  James, 
  a 
  lieutenant 
  in 
  the 
  German 
  Legion, 
  fell 
  at 
  the 
  siege 
  of 
  

   Badajoz 
  in 
  1811 
  ; 
  Alexander, 
  captain 
  in 
  the 
  Madras 
  Engineers, 
  died 
  in 
  

   the 
  Burmese 
  war 
  in 
  1825 
  ; 
  and 
  Francis, 
  captain 
  in 
  the 
  Madras 
  Army, 
  as 
  

   already 
  mentioned, 
  died 
  at 
  Edinburgh 
  in 
  1852. 
  - 
  

  

  By 
  his 
  will 
  Dr. 
  Grant 
  bequeathed 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  his 
  property, 
  including 
  

  

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