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namely, that Cestodes give rise to Echinococcus and Cysticercus. In Munich 
he published a number of papers on parthenogenesis and general zoological 
subjects but retained his interest in parasitology, at times reverting to matters 
of which he had treated long before: Syngamus trachealis (1835, 1867), Nema¬ 
todes in insects (1842-58), Mermis, Gordius, etc. (1845, 1856), Cestodes, Echino- 
rhynchus and the parasitic insects Ornithobia (1845) and Liptotena (1845, 
1850), Pentastomum (1856). His laboratory facilities in Munich were poor, 
this doubtless leading to his devoting much time to museum work which 
checked his original scientific activities and in the opinion of his biographer, 
Ehlers, proved the truth of Schiodte’s criticism of Claparede that “Les musees 
pesent lourdement sur la science.” 
The work of von Siebold, whilst not highly original, was marked by pains¬ 
taking industry, minute care and sound critical judgment. He laid stress on 
the need of studying the living animal and in this respect his work recalls that 
of Spallanzani, Reaumur or de Geer. Among his pupils were Theodore Bilharz, 
Ferdinand Cohn, Ernst Ehlers and Elie Metchnikoff, to mention but a few. 
He was the recipient of many honours which will be found enumerated in the 
Almanack d. baier. Ahad. Wiss. 1884, p. 130. 
For Biography [herein abstracted] see Ehlers (1885), Zeitschr.f. wiss. Zool. 
xlii, pp. i-xxiii, with Bibliography pp. xxiv-xxxiv and heliogravure portrait 
[1868, herein reproduced]. The foregoing bibliography comprises 197 numbers 
of publications on medical and zoological subjects which appeared in 1828-82. 
Portraits : pencil drawing by von Kaulbach (obtainable in photographic re¬ 
production); painting by von Lenbach; bust by Haller; heliogravure from a 
photograph by Hanfstangel (1860) in Zeitschr.f. iviss. Zool. 1860. 
John Goodsir. 
1814-1867. 
(Portrait-plate XVII.) 
John Goodsir, the anatomist, was born 20 March, 1814, at Anstruther, 
Fifeshire, and died 6 March, 1867, of spinal disease in Edinburgh, where he 
lies buried beside his friend Edward Forbes (1815-54) in the Dean Cemetery 1 . 
He studied at St Andrews and matriculated at Edinburgh (1830) where he 
became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1835, Curator of the 
Museum of the College (1841) and afterwards (1844) Demonstrator of Anatomy. 
He became Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh (1846-1867) and was elected 
Fellow of the Royal Society. 
The value of his original work was widely recognized, a striking tribute 
being that of Rudolf Virchow who dedicated the first edition of his Cellular 
Pathology (1859) to Goodsir “as one of the earliest and most acute observers 
of cell-life both physiological and pathological.” Goodsir wrote on the develop- 
1 A granite obelisk erected on the spot was engraved with a curved line symbolic of “the 
law of the vital force.” 
