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on the structure and classification of animals, to the members of 
the Zoological Society. In 1837 he was appointed Fullerian 
Professor of Physiology in the Royal Institution, which he held for 
the usual period of three years. At a later period he was 
appointed by the Trustees of the British Museum to the Swiney 
Lectureship on Geology, the tenure of which is limited to five 
years. In 1841 he delivered the annual oration before the British 
Medical Association. In 1836 he was elected a Fellow of the 
Royal Society of London. He was also a Fellow of the Linnean, 
Zoological, and Geological Societies. 
Dr Grant’s vacations were spent sometimes in Scotland, but 
chiefly abroad, in France, Germany, Belgium, and Holland. On 
more than one of these occasions he was accompanied by an 
intelligent and favourite Hindoo pupil, Dr Chuckerbutty, who after- 
wards became a Professor in the Government Medical College of 
Calcutta. Dr Grant seems to have had a special liking for Hol- 
land, which he visited and revisited several times, partly no doubt 
on account of its scientific institutions and zoological museums, 
but largely also for the sake of acquiring the Dutch language. In 
like manner he afterwards spent a vacation in Copenhagen, and 
worked hard at Danish. Indeed, it is to be noted that he had a 
great taste for the study of languages, both practical and. philo- 
logical, and spoke the principal European tongues fluently. 
Dr Grant’s lectures were reported in the early numbers of the 
Lancet,” and he afterwards published a treatise on Comparative 
Anatomy, which embodied the substance of them. The work came 
out in parts, but was not completed. He was also author of the 
article, “Animal Kingdom,” in Todd’s Cyclopaedia of Anatomy. 
The titles and dates of his communications to periodical works are 
given in the Royal Society’s Catalogue of Scientific Papers ; they 
are thirty-five in number, and extend from 1825 to 1839. 
Dr Grant was a devoted lover of music, and attendance at operas 
and concerts was one of his chief enjoyments in his latter years. 
In August 1874 Dr Grant suffered from a dysenteric attack, for 
which at first he would have no medical advice, and although 
subsequently, by appropriate treatment, the virulence of the disease 
was subdued, his strength was exhausted, and he died on the 23d 
of that month, at his house close by Euston Square. He was 
