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Asylum for Criminal Lunatics at Broadmoor; and here for two years he carried on his investigations concerning the nematoids, which led to a monograph, in which one hundred new species were described. During this time and afterward, Dr. Bastian conducted an interesting and important series of investigations on the specific gravity of the brain. In 1866 he left Broadmoor, came to London, married, became lecturer on pathology and curator of the museum at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School. He now took up the study of the diseases of the nervous system as a whole, rather than the section of it met with in asylums. He was elected Assistant Physician to St. Mary's Hospital, and then shortly left it to accept the professorship of Pathological Anatomy and the position of Assistant Physician to the Hospital of University College. The same year he was also appointed Assistant Physician to the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic. He has thus been in the midst of active and pressing professional studies, but Dr. Bastian has still found time for those laborious and purely scientific inquiries for which he is most extensively known. The following is, a list of his chief memoirs and works, in the order of their publication:

"On the Structure and Nature of the Dracunculus or Guinea-Worm." "Trans, of Linn. See," vol. xxiv.

"Monograph on the Anguillulidæ, or Free Nematoids, Marine, Land, and Fresh-water; with Descriptions of 100 New Species." "Trans, of Linn. Sec," vol. xxv.

"On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Nematoids, Parasitic and Free; with Observations on their Zoölogical Position and Affinities to the Echinoderms."

"Philosophical Transactions," 1866.

"On the Mode of Origin of Secondary Cancerous Growths." Medical Mirror, vol. i., No. X.

"On the Specific Gravity of the Different Parts of the Human Brain." Journal of Mental Science, January, 1866.

"On the so-called Pacchionian Bodies." "Trans, of the Microsc. Soc," July, 1866.

"On the Pathology of Tubercular Meningitis." Edinburgh Journal of Medical Science, April, 1867.

"On a Case of Concussion-Lesion of the Spinal Cord, with Extensive Ascending and Descending Secondary Degenerations." "Trans, of Medico-Chir. Soc," 1867.

"On Cirrhosis of the Lungs." "Reynolds's System of Medicine," vol. iii.


Also the sections on "Pathology and Morbid Anatomy" of the following joint articles (by Dr. Reynolds and Dr. Bastian) appeared in "System of Medicine," vol. ii.: "Cerebritis;" "Non-Inflammatory Softening of the Brain;" "Congestion of the Brain;" "Hypertrophy of the Brain;" "Adventitious Products in the Brain."

"Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms." Macmillan, May, 1871.

"The Beginnings of Life," 2 vols., Appletons, 1872.

"Evolution and the Origin of Life," Macmillan, 1874.

"On Paralysis from Brain-Disease in its Common Forms," Appletons, 1875.