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his services during which he was thanked in the General Orders 

 of 14th February 1846, and received the offer of the Superintending 

 Surgeoncy of the Gwalior Subsidiary Force, one of the most lucrative 

 posts in the service. Influenced, however, by a desire to take part 

 in the organization of the Medical College, which had been for 

 some time projected, he preferred waiting for the establishment of 

 that Institution, which took place towards the close of the following 

 year. He was then appointed Professor of Anatomy and Physiolo- 

 gy, and notwithstanding an ill judged reduction of the salary, which 

 left him in very straitened circumstances, he devoted himself with 

 the ardor of his character to the advancement of the Institution 

 and to the improvement of his class, resisting the temptations of 

 private practice, which his high professional attainments would 

 have ensured, that he might apply himself more exclusively to his 

 Collegiate labors. In 1855, he was appointed Professor of Compara- 

 tive Anatomy, in addition to the Department he already held, but 

 he refused to be made Principal of the College out of delicacy to 

 his colleagues, whom from a too scrupulous feeling he felt unwil- 

 to supersede. 



It was shortly after this, that his health began to fail, and he was 

 only prevented by want of means occasioned by the niggardly salary 

 attached to his appointment, from having recourse to the advice 

 again and again urged upon him, of recruiting his shattered health 

 by returning home. 



Every year during the College vacation, he repaired to the Coast 

 of Arracan, for the purpose of studying the numerous remarkable 

 animal productions in which a tropical sea so richly abounds. His 

 notes and dissections accompanied by elaborate drawings of Mol- 

 luscs, Annelides and Radiated Animals were prepared with sedu- 

 lous care and scrupulous accuracy. His researches among the 

 naked Molluscs, particularly in the families of the Nudi, Tecti and 

 Infer o-lranchiata, and the Tunicata, were rewarded by the discovery 

 of numerous new and interesting forms, which he investigated with 

 singular patience and success. The collections amassed during 

 eight years of continued labour, contain a store of materials of the 

 greatest value in some of the least known departments of Zoology, 

 which he fondly hoped one day to give to the public himself, but 



