Robert McDonnell

“ If it be true, as Lecky somewhere says, that the Irishman who makes a friend of a fellow countryman of a different religion from his own is a benefactor to his country, then Lentaigne was one. He numbered among his friends many who, like myself, _though a different religion, accorded to him the most unbounded admiration for a large and catholic spirit of Christian charity which led him to devote his life to tho improvement and reform of the criminal classes. ”

“ On the other hand, the candid inquirer must admit, that when in some creatures well-developed special organs exist, while in their immediate kinsfolk (if I may use the term) no trace of kindred structures has been discovered, there herein exists a grave objection to any theory of unity of type resulting from community of descent. ”

“ VII.—On an Organ In the Skate which appears to be the homologue of the Electrical Organ of the Torpedo. By Robert M'Donnell, M.D., F.R.C.S.I., Lecturer in the Carmichael School of Medicine, Dublin. In the eyes of those who look without prejudice on the theory of descent with modification, the tracing out of homologies has, in recent times, been invested with a new interest. ”

“ Sir John Lentaigne possessed one quality which peculiarly fitted him to undertake tho reformation of prisoners and convicts. Ho had perfect faith in human nature. Ho believed with intense earnestness that even in tho most degraded criminals there exists tho germ of good, tho seed which, by careful, tender culture, may be developed and ultimately boar good fruit. A loving faith pervaded his whole life, and was tho secret of his success. ”

“ That band of the so-called muciferous tubes which runs inwards and a little backwards from a point external and anterior to the gills; 2nd. The dorsal aspect of the branchial chambers; and, 3rd. The little snout-muscle, which ends in a long delicate tendon, running forwards. Let the little fleshy belly of the snout-muscle be raised and drawn outwards, and the band of tubes dissected up and drawn forwards, in the angle between them will be found the body sought for ”