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ardour his anatomical studies, and in 1856 he published a series of 
memoirs on the structure of the skeleton, which added greatly to 
his reputation. Although Mr Goodsir continued to discharge the 
duties of his class, and carry on his original researches, his health 
was gradually giving way. He had been afflicted for many years 
with a general paralysis, which carried him off on the 6th March 
1867. In order to do honour to his memory, his friends and pupils 
have resolved to establish in the University a Fellowship in Ana- 
tomy and Physiology bearing his honoured name. 
Robert Edward Scoresby- Jackson was born at Whitby in 1833, 
and was the nephew of our celebrated colleague the late Ur Wil- 
liam Scoresby. He prosecuted his medical studies in London, 
where he became a licentiate of the Apothecaries’ Company in 1855. 
In 1857 he came to Edinburgh, and took the degree of M.D. He 
then visited the Continent, and on his return to Edinburgh, where 
he settled as a physician, he became a Fellow of the Royal College 
of Surgeons in 1859, a Fellow of this Society in 1861, and a Fellow 
of the Royal College of Physicians in 1862. In 1860 he wrote a 
Life of his uncle. In 1862 he published his Medical Climatology , 
and in 1863 he read an interesting paper to this Society on the 
Influence of Weather upon Disease and Mortality, a subject to 
which he had devoted much attention, and another on the Tem- 
perature of certain Hot Springs in the Pyrenees. As chairman of the 
medical department of the Meteorological Society, he conducted, 
under its auspices, some important inquiries into climate, and he 
published several valuable papers in its “ Proceedings.” On the 
appointment of Dr Douglas Maclagan to the chair of Medical 
Jurisprudence in the University, Dr Jackson succeeded him as 
lecturer in Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the extra-Acade- 
mical School of Edinburgh ; and the last work which he published 
was entitled “ A Note-Book of Materia Medica, Pharmacology, and 
Therapeutics.” Dr Jackson was in 1865 elected one of the phy- 
sicians of the Royal Infirmary. Besides the papers we have men- 
tioned, he contributed several articles to the “ Edinburgh Medical 
Journal.” Dr Jackson was an active member of the Edinburgh 
Medical Missionary Society, and an earnest student of divine truth. 
He was attacked with typhus fever caught in the Infirmary, and 
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