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the fear of impending examinations, to follow out those lines of 

 study and research which his natural bent of mind made him 

 specially qualified to undertake. 



He lived in the same house in college as the eminent mathe- 

 matician McCullagh, and conceived the warmest regard and admira- 

 tion for him. Yery possibly it was due to this association that 

 Haughton's earlier work was in the domain of physical science ; aud 

 at the age of twenty-six he obtained his. first extra-collegiate dis- 

 tinction, viz., the award of the Cunningham Medal by the Royal 

 Irish Academy for his memoir " On the Equilibrium and Motion of 

 Solid and Fluid Bodies." Soon, however, he turned his attention to 

 geology, and in 1851, on the removal of Professor Phillips to Oxford, 

 he was elected University Professor in that subject. This chair he 

 occupied for thirty years, and only resigned it on his appointment as 

 one of the Senior Fellows of Trinity College in 1881. 



Very early in his career, before he had entered college, Haughton 

 had shown a strong inclination towards the profession of medicine. 

 It was his boyish dream to prepare himself as a medical missionary, 

 and to devote his life to missionary work in China. It was the old 

 Quaker instinct working within him, an instinct which became the 

 great ruling principle of his life, the desire to succour and help the 

 weak in the great battle of life. It is fortunate for science and the 

 cause of education that his early ambitions were not realised. Still, 

 although his thoughts were for the time deflected into other chan- 

 nels, and his duties as a Fellow of the College and as Professor of 

 Geology led him into a totally different field of work, his early yearn- 

 ings were not completely eradicated. The natural course of events 

 had drawn him away from medicine, but geology brought him back to 

 it. He perceived that he could not properly treat of animal remains 

 preserved in fossils without a knowledge of comparative anatomy, 

 and the readiest means of obtaining this knowledge appeared to him 

 to lie in the thorough study, in the first instance, of human anatomy. 

 He was thus led to enter the Medical School, and consequently we 

 find him, at the somewhat advanced age of thirty-eight, and already 

 a Fellow of the Royal Society, already widely known as a mathe- 

 matician and a geologist, undergoing all the drudgery attending a 

 course of professional study. Well aware that there is no royal road 

 to knowledge, he threw himself into the full routine of attendance 

 on lectures and hospitals, and pursued his dissections and laboratory 

 work as cheerfully as the youngest student in the school, and as 

 assiduously as if he had to earn his bread by the practice of medi- 

 cine. Although greatly burdened by other duties, he passed all the 

 degree examinations at the prescribed periods, and finally graduated 

 in medicine in 1862. 



Thus introduced into the inner life of the School of Physic, 



