GULLIVERIANA: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY; INCLUDING BRIEF NOTICES OF SOME OF THE AUTHOR'S CONTEMPORARIES, NOTES ON SWIFT'S GULLIVER, AN ACCOUNT OF THE DUEL BETWEEN FAWCETT AND MUNRO, A VISIT TO THE NORTHERN SCENES OF IZAAK WALTON'S ANGLER, RAMBLES ABOUT WINDSOR, AND THE HUNTERIAN ORATION OF 1863. Hoc est vivere bis Vita posse priore frui. Martial. BY GEORGE GULLIVER, F.R.S., F.R.C.S.E., LATE PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY TO THAT COLLEGE, HONORARY FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND, AND SURGEON IN THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF HORSE GUARDS. (Not published. Only 25 copies printed, and all for strictly private use). Canterbury: CROSS & JACKMAN. CONTENTS. APPRENTICESHIP AND PURSUITS THEN, p. 5—BOTANY AND CORRESPONDENCE THEREON, 5—AT ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL, 5—CURATOR OF MUSEUM AND PROSECTOR, 6-MR. OWEN'S APPOINTMENT TO THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, 6-WILLIAM CLIFT, 6- ADMITTED A MEMBER OF THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, 7-JOIN THE ARMY AND SUBSEQUENT STEPS THEREIN, 7-IN CHARGE OF MUSEUM AND SURGICAL DIVISION OF THE HOSPITAL AT FORT PITT, 7-FRIENDSHIP WITH JOHN DAVY-THE · AMICUS' OF HIS BOOKS ON ANGLING AND OUR LOVE OF THE SPORT, THE 71ST REGIMENT, 21-AT EDINBURGH; EMINENT MEN THERE, 22— CHAPTER V. APPOINTED ASSISTANT-SURGEON IN THE BLUES, p. 26-SCIENTIFIC WORK, 26 -GERBER'S ANATOMY AND HEWSON'S WORKS, WAGNER'S PHYSIOLOGY, BOYD'S VITAL STATISTICS, LECTURES AT THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, NOTES OF MY RESEARCHES, WORK AT ST. MARYLEBONE INFIRMARY, 26 -BLOOD CORPUSCLES, ASSISTANCE AND OBSTRUCTION, 26-27-PYRENAEMATA AND APYRENAEMATA, 27-MUSCULAR SHEATH OF ESOPHAGUS, 27MICROSCOPIC TAXONOMY, 27-BUFFY BLOOD, 28-FATTY DEGENERATIONS, 28-29-COAGULATION OF BLOOD AND RIGIDITY OF MUSCLES IN ANIMALS HUNTED TO DEATH, 29-CAPSULE OF ELASTIC TISSUE ON THE LUNGS, 29 —PROMOTED TO BE SURGEON IN THE BLUES, 29-ELECTED F.R.S., F.R.C.S.E., F.Z.S., 29-ARMY AND NAVY CLUB, 29-sir ast. COOPER AT CONDUIT ST., 29. CHAPTER VI. QUEKETT'S RESEARCHES ON THE MINUTE ANATOMY OF BONE, p. 30— CONTROVERSY BETWEEN NASMYTH AND HIS RIVAL, 31-SURPRISING ZOOLOGICO-ATHROPOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS, 31-DR. LEE'S DISSECTIONS OF NERVES, 31-REFEREES OF PAPERS AT SOCIETIES, 32-BLOOD-DISKS OF THE TRAGULES, 32-GREAT MASTERS OF THE OLD AND NEW PHYSIOLOGY, 33-ANDREW ROSS, 33-BOWERBANK'S EVENINGS AND GEOFFROY ST. HILAIRE, 33-RESIDENCE AND BOTANICAL PURSUITS AT EDENBRIDGE, 33. CHAPTER VII. CAUSE OF THE QUARREL, page 35-MONRO'S CHALLENGE, 35—I GO WITH HIM TO THE FIELD, AND HIS STATEMENT ON THE WAY THITHER, 36 —ARRIVAL OF FAWCETT AND THE SECONDS, 36—I QUIT THE FIELD; AM RECALLED AND SEE FAWCETT FALL, 36-HIS DECLARATION WHEN FALLEN, 36-WE CARRY HIM OFF AND SUMMON LISTON AND BRODIE, 37-1 AM ARRESTED AND BAILED, 37-CORONER'S INQUEST AND VERDICT, 37-MY ARRAIGNMENT AND ACQUITTAL AT THE OLD BAILEY, 37-38 -POPULAR EXCITEMENT AND ERRORS, 38-DUELLING SUPPRESSED IN THE ARMY, 38-TRIAL OF MONRO AND RESULT, 38-FRIENDS DURING MY TROUBLES, 38-39. A VISIT TO THE NORTHERN SCENES OF THE COMPLETE ANGLER, page 40- BUST OF WALTON AT STAFFORD, 40-COTTON'S COUNTRY NEGLECTED BY EMINENT NEIGHBOURS, 40-FIDELITY OF HIS DESCRIPTION, 41- WALK FROM DERBY TO ASHBOURNE, 41-LOW TOP, THORP CLOUD, BUNSTER, AND MOOR TOP HILLS, 42-TOM MOORE IN THAT COUNTRY, 42-AND ROUSSEAU, 43—AND JOHNSON AND BOSWELL, 43—MONUMENT TO PENELOPE BOOTHBY, 43-EPITAPHS TO INFANTS, 44-THE TALBOT INN, 45-VIEW FROM LOW TOP, 45-BENTLEY BROOK, 45-DOVEDALE, 45-THE LATHKIL AND BRADFORD, 46-THE WYE, 47-BRIDGE FROM HANSON TOOT OVER THE DOVE TO ALSTONFIELD, 47-BERESFORD HALL, HIS DEATH, page 50-NO ADEQUATE BIOGRAPHY OF HIM, 50-JEALOUSY AMONG EMINENT MEN, 51-EXAMPLES OF HIS ORIGINAL OBSERVATIONS, THE LAKE DISTRICT AND RIVER DUDDON, page 54-A POET'S PROVIDENCE, 54-AN EVENING WITH WORDSWORTH, 55, 57 -NEW SUBJECTS FOR MAGAZINES, 55-JOHN DYER, CHARLOTTE SMITH, DR. JOHNSON, 55—REMARKABLE COCKNEYS, 55-COWPER AT WESTMINSTER, 55-CRITICAL REVIEWERS, 56-POPE'S FRIENDS AND ENEMIES, 57-LITERARY AND ARCHITECTURAL FAME, 57-COLERIDGE'S ANCIENT MARINER, 58-POETICAL PARALLELS, 58-LAMB, COLERIDGE, WALTER SCOTT, 59-THE TEETOTAL QUESTION, 59-EVILS OF DRINK, 60-BANEFUL POLITY OF BREWERS, 60-HOW TO RAISE THE REVENUE AND IMPROVE THE PEOPLE, 61—OPPRESSION OF THE BREWERS' SYSTEM, |