of Edinburgh, Session 1880-81. Ill 
advantage of the friendship and assistance of the learned and 
genial Rudolphi. 
On his return from the Continent in the autumn of 1829, Dr 
Sharpey established himself in Edinburgh, and was for a time 
engaged in anatomical researches. In 1830 he became a Fellow of 
the College of Surgeons there, upon which occasion he presented a 
probationary essay, “ On the Pathology and Treatment of False 
Joints.” In the summer of 1831 he again spent some time in 
Berlin for the purpose of collecting specimens to illustrate the course 
of lectures on anatomy, which it was his intention to deliver in the 
following winter. After embarking in this enterprise he continued 
to give systematic instructions as a teacher in the extra-academical 
School of Edinburgh, during five years, or from 1831 to 1836 ; and 
while his success as a lecturer was evinced by the large and pro- 
gressive increase in the number of his pupils, his scientific reputa- 
tion both at home and abroad had advanced in a still greater degree 
by the known care and accuracy of his observations, and the extent 
of his scientific knowledge. 
In the summer of 1836 the Chair of Anatomy and Physiology 
in the then University of London having become vacant by the 
resignation of Dr Jones Quain, and the authorities and leading 
medical professors of the university being desirous to give greater 
prominence than previously to the teaching of Physiology and 
Physiological Anatomy, Dr Sharpey was, in the month of July, 
selected to fill the chair • it being determined that while he, as 
Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, should give full instructions in 
Physiology and in minute Anatomy and the structure of the Viscera, 
his colleague, Mr Richard Quain, should, as Professor of Anatomy, 
undertake the more purely descriptive and practical anatomical 
department. There was thus established in London for the first time 
the full and systematic teaching of Physiology, which had previously 
been only imperfectly treated as an appendage to the courses of 
Anatomy. 
Dr Sharpey applied himself to the performance of his new duties 
with all the care and diligence which was to be expected from so 
conscientious a teacher, with a range of knowledge of his subject 
rarely equalled, and with powers of exact observation and critical 
judgment of the highest order ; so that it was not to be wondered 
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