Proceedings of the Royal Society 
session, entrusted him with the part of the course which related to 
the anatomy of invertebrate animals. He entered on his duties 
in London in 1828, and in October of that year delivered his 
Inaugural Lecture, which was published at the time, and went 
through two editions. In this office he continued up to the time 
of his death, during which long period of forty-six academical 
years he never omitted a single lecture. This was a point on 
which he justly prided himself. Up to the last session (1873-74) 
he continued to give five lectures a week, but, sensible of failing 
strength, he proposed to reduce the number to three in the next 
session, which he was not destined to see. The number of students 
who entered to his class fluctuated a good deal, but was never large, 
attendance not being compulsory in the medical curriculum pre- 
scribed by the licensing corporations. In one session (1836-37) the 
number was fifty- six, but usually it was between thirty and forty, and 
sometimes much less. 
After he had thus laboured for more than twenty years, the 
Council of the College added to the small return he received for 
his services an anual stipend of one hundred pounds, which was 
continued during the rest of his incumbency. About the same 
time a number of his friends, in presenting him with a microscope, 
in testimony of their esteem, purchased for him a G-overnment 
annuity of fifty pounds. Afterwards he succeeded to some pro- 
perty left by his brother Francis, an officer in the Madras army, 
who died in 1852, so that in his later years he found himself in 
easy circumstances. 
His leading pupils were much attached to him, and he was 
sincerely esteemed and respected by all. His style of lecturing 
was clear and impressive, with a ready and copious flow of language. 
Without meaning to speak of his mode of treating his subjects, we 
may nevertheless remark, that on one great biological question — 
the origin of species — he was from the first an evolutionist, and on 
the promulgation of the Darwinian hypothesis of natural selection 
he became one of its warmest adherents. 
Between 1838 and 1840, Dr Grant was frequently engaged to 
deliver lectures at the Literary and Scientific Institutions of various 
large provincial towns, where his services were in great request and 
high esteem. In 1833 he gave a gratuitous course of 40 lectures, 
