I INSCRIBE THIS WORK TOTHE GENTLEMEN WITH WHOM AS A FELLOW-STUDENT I WAS ASSOCIATEDAT THELondon University College:AND IN AN ESPECIAL MANNER, IN THEIR NAME AS WELL AS MY OWN, I AVAIL MYSELF OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECORD,ON THIS PAGE,ALBEIT IN CHARACTERS LESS IMPRESSIVE THAN THOSE WHICH ARE WRITTENON THE LIVING TABLET OF MEMORY,THE DEBT OF GRATITUDE WHICH WE OWETO THE LATESAMUEL COOPER, F.R.S., AND ROBERT LISTON, F.R.S.,TWO AMONG THE MANY DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORS OF THAT INSTITUTION,WHOSE PUPILS WE HAVE BEEN,AND FROM WHOM WE INHERIT THAT BETTER POSSESSION THAN LIFE ITSELF,AN ASPIRATION FOR THE LIGHT OF SCIENCE.JOSEPH MACLISE.
I INSCRIBE THIS WORK TOTHE GENTLEMEN WITH WHOM AS A FELLOW-STUDENT I WAS ASSOCIATEDAT THELondon University College:
AND IN AN ESPECIAL MANNER, IN THEIR NAME AS WELL AS MY OWN, I AVAIL MYSELF OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECORD,ON THIS PAGE,ALBEIT IN CHARACTERS LESS IMPRESSIVE THAN THOSE WHICH ARE WRITTENON THE LIVING TABLET OF MEMORY,THE DEBT OF GRATITUDE WHICH WE OWETO THE LATE
SAMUEL COOPER, F.R.S., AND ROBERT LISTON, F.R.S.,
TWO AMONG THE MANY DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORS OF THAT INSTITUTION,WHOSE PUPILS WE HAVE BEEN,AND FROM WHOM WE INHERIT THAT BETTER POSSESSION THAN LIFE ITSELF,AN ASPIRATION FOR THE LIGHT OF SCIENCE.
JOSEPH MACLISE.