CONTENTS 
OF 
THE FIRST VOLUME 
CHAPTER I 
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Parentage— Childhood — Youth . . ■ • • • * 
CHAPTER II 
1824-33 
Edinburgh University — Prosector to Abernethy in Lon- 
don— M.R.C.S. and Assistant Curator of the Hunterian 
Collection at the College of Surgeons, 1826— Lecturer on 
Comparative Anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s, 1828 Cata- 
logue of the Hunterian Museum, 1830-34 — Introduction 
to Cuvier— Visit to Paris, 1831—* Memoir on the Pearly 
Nautilus,’ 1832 , • 
CHAPTER III 
1833-36 
Eton in 1833 — Professor of Comparative Anatomy at St. 
Bartholomew’s, 1834-F.R.S., 1834— Marriage to Caroline 
Clift, 1835— Early Married Life 
