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furnislied by a common roasting-jack_, a ladies^ old-fasliioned 
parasol^ and pieces of brass purchased at a neighbouring 
marine-store dealer^ s^ and hammered out by himself/^ Hav- 
ing selected the medical profession^ he in due course became 
a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries^ and a member of 
the Royal College of Surgeons of London. In the latter in- 
stitution he obtained, by competition, the appointment of 
Student of Human and Comparative Anatomy/^ While 
holding this appointment, he gave a large share of his atten- 
tion to microscopical pursuits, and prepared an extensive 
series of specimens of the elementary tissues of plants and 
animals. This collection, numbering 2500 preparations, was 
purchased by the College of Surgeons in 1846, and forms a 
part of the histological department of their museum. It 
contains a large number of specimens of minute injections of 
the capillaries, in preparing which he was remarkably skilful 
and successful. At the expiration of the term for which the 
studentship was tenable, he became " Assistant Conservator 
of the Hunterian Museum,^^ and in the year 1844 was ap- 
pointed by the Council of the College " to deliver annually 
a course of demonstrations, with a view to the exhibition and 
connected description of the collection, and to the explana- 
tion of the method and resources of microscopical study .^^ 
On the retirement of Professor Owen, " Mr. Quekett was 
elected his successor, and also Professor of Histology — an 
appointment which he held at the time of his decease." 
In 1848 he published A Practical Treatise on the Use of 
the Microscope,^ a second edition of which was soon required 
and published. 
In 1850 appeared the first volume of the ^Descriptive and 
Illustrated Catalogue of the Histological Series contained in 
the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England/ 
Elementary Tissues of Vegetables and Animals. 
In 1852 was published a volume of ^Lectures on Histo- 
logy, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England 
in the session 1850 — 51,^ Elementary Tissues of Plants and 
Animals. 
In 1854 was published a second volume of ^Lectures on 
Plistology, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons in the 
session 1851 — 52,^ Structure of the Skeleton of Plants and 
Invertebrate Animals. 
In 1855 appeared a second volume of a Descriptive and 
Illustrated Catalogue of the Histological Series contained in 
the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England,^ 
Structure of the Skeleton of Vertebrate Animals. 
In addition to these published works, he contributed nu- 
