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My chief sources of information have been the following:—The past volumes of this Journal, especially those between 1830-1860, where there is to be found not only a full account of the work done by Scottish, but also by French, German and Italian, anatomists; Natural History Review (1854-1865); Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1867-1900); Historical Sketch of the Edinburgh Anatomical School, by John Struthers, M.D., Edinburgh, 1867 (see also Edin. Med. Journ., 1867, vol. xii. pp. 289, 431, 539); Letters of Sir Charles Bell to his Brother, George Joseph Bell, London, 1870 (see also Sir William Turner's extracts in Journ. Anat. and Physiol., 1869, vol. iii. p. 117); Life and Writings of Robert Knox, by Henry Lonsdale, London, 1870; The Anatomical Memoirs of John Goodsir, edited by William Turner, with a biographical sketch by Henry Lonsdale, 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1868; "An Address on the Occasion of the Opening of the New Home of the Royal Society of Edinburgh," by Sir William Turner, Nov. 1909.



