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action of poisons and the functions of the liver, were apparently the 

 origin of Harley's scientific bent of mind, and we find him early in 

 his career investigating the action of " atropine " in dilating the 

 pupil, of strychnine on the spinal cord, and of the " Calabar bean." 

 Then he took to the special study of the liver, and in 1883 wrote 

 his elaborate treatise on diseases of the liver, a book which was very 

 favourably received and had a great circulation, being translated 

 into several languages. He communicated many papers to the Royal 

 Society — one of them even as early as 1856-7, and in 1865 was the 

 author of a paper in the * Philosophical Transactions of the Royal 

 Society ' " On the Influence of Physical agents on the Blood, with 

 Special Reference to the Mutual Action of the Blood on the Respira- 

 tory Gases." He also wrote in the ' Transactions ' of the Micro- 

 scopical, Zoological, and Anthropological Societies, in the ' Comptes 

 Rendus de 1' Academic' and was the author of a number of contribu- 

 tions to the medical papers. It would be too long to give an 

 enumeration of all Greorge Harley's writings scientific and medical ; 

 he was never at rest ; and when he died he must have felt conscious 

 that he had done his duty and completed his work. 



W. M. 



