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Cyclopaedia, both contained a large amount of original matter, and 
gained for Dr Sharpey a high reputation as a scientific observer 
and writer. 
In 1833 Dr Sharpey gave in the “Edinburgh New Philosophical 
Journal ” an account of Ehrenberg’s Researches on Infusoria. In 
1834 he took part in the proceedings of the British Association 
for the Advancement of Science which met at Edinburgh, and 
contributed a paper founded on his own observations on the 
peculiar distribution of the arterial vessels in the Porpoise. 
He delivered the “ Address in Physiology ” at the Thirtieth 
Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association held in London 
in 1862 ; and in 1867, as president of the Biological section of 
the British Association at the Dundee meeting, he delivered an 
address in which, as in the one previously mentioned, he ably 
reviewed the progress of Physiology, more especially as regards 
the application of exact methods of research to the solution of 
jdiysiological problems. 
But Dr Sharpey was extremely fastidious as an author, and 
though his style was clear and his language eminently appropriate, 
yet he shrank from frequently appearing in print : and accordingly 
much of his original observation and thought on scientific subjects, 
though involving laborious research, was made known by him only 
through his lectures, or was published in a more or less fragmentary 
form in connection with such systematic works as Baly’s translation 
of Muller’s Physiology and the later editions of Quain’s Anatomy. 
In the first of these works it is well known that the excellent 
translator, who was a distinguished pupil of Dr Sharpey’s class, 
derived much assistance in his labours from his teacher, and 
several notable additions were made to the work by contributions 
from Dr Sharpey’s pen. Among these one of the most important is 
that, in the modest form of a note, in which he gave an account of 
original observations made by himself on the structure of the 
uterine glands and membrana decidua. 
In 1843-46 Dr Sharpey published as joint editor with Professor 
Richard Quain the fifth edition of Dr Jones Quain’s Elements of 
Anatomy, which, from the amount of new matter introduced and 
changes made by the editors, assumed almost the character of a new 
work. In this edition the General Anatomy was entirely rewritten 
