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chimpanzee compared with that of an idiot, as well as in many others of his papers, there are glimpses of a morphology far beyond Cuvier, whose works he edited. His book on inflammation may be placed side by side with any pathological work of the period, while his researches on animal luminosity form the basis of many subsequent researches on the subject.
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University of Cambridge (31 Aug. 1833), to which he sold his museum in 1836, the University of Dublin having refused to purchase it. He died at 31 Upper Merrion Street, Dublin, on 6 March 1843 (Gent. Mag. 1843, i. 554). He married on 10 Aug. 1795 a
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an expert anatomist and a philosophical biologist far in advance of his period. His description of the vascular system of birds has in many respects not been surpassed, and his account of the anatomy of mammals may be read with more profit than many modern works. In his account of the brain of the
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Hospital, a post he held from March 1800 to 1811. On 21 Feb. 1811, he was elected F.R.S., and from 1803 to 1812 he served as surgeon to the Royal Radnor
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Hunterian or Great Windmill Street school of medicine, and he became an occasional pupil at St. Thomas's and Guy's hospitals. He also attended the lectures of
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Warburton's advisers and as a practical anatomist with great experience in teaching, he had much to do in shaping the
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