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action of poisons and the fu actions 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 

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

 Then he took to the special stndy 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 Roval 

 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 T 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 George 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. 



Augustus Wollaston Franks was the elder son of Captain Frede- 

 rick Franks, R.N., and Frederica, daughter of Sir John Sebright 

 Bart., of Beechwood, Herts. He was born on March 20, 1826, at 

 Geneva, and his second name records the fact that the celebrated Dr. 

 Wollaston, F.R.S., was one of his godfathers. At Geneva and at 

 Rome his parents resided during his boyhood, when he became well 

 versed in French and Italian. His school education was, however, at 

 Eton, whence in due course he proceeded to Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, where he took his B.A. degree in 1849, and his M.A. in 1852. 

 While still at college he exhibited a strong attachment to mediaeval 

 antiquities, and in 1849 published a volume on ' Ornamental Glazing 

 Quarries,' many of the illustrations in which were drawn by himself. 

 He subsequently published a treatise on ' Yitreous Art in the Art 

 Treasures of the Manchester Exhibition.' It was, however, as one 

 of the editors of Kemble's ' Horae Ferales,' which was published in 

 1863, that he established his position as a scientific archaeologist, 

 for it was in that work that he first brought before the world his 

 views on a phase of civilization corresponding in the main with what 

 on the Continent is known as "the Early Iron Age," the remains of 

 which are perhaps more characteristically present in the British 

 Isles than in any other part of Europe. For the term " late-Celtic 

 Period," by which this stage in human progress is now generally 

 known, we are indebted to Sir Wollaston Franks. 



He also took a warm interest in prehistoric archaeology, and at 



