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47 been six years in India in military service, had, in 1831, come to England on leave to visit his parents, and had, soon after that, left the service altogether. His father, Dr. William Cooke (who died on the 21st March, 1857), had for some time lived at Durham, and was subsequently appointed Reader in Medicine at the then lately organised University there. He began his lectures in 1833.

W. F. Cooke, wishing to make for his father anatomical models in wax to be used at his lectures, went to Paris where he attended, during the winter of 1833–4, lectures on anatomy. In the spring of 1834 he returned to Durham, and made there such models as his father most wanted. In the summer of 1835 he accompanied his parents on a tour to Switzerland. Heidelberg was visited. Ascending the Rhine, Here Professor Tiedemann, the director of the then existing Anatomical Institute, offered to assist young Mr. Cooke in procuring the necessary means for making preparations in wax for his father, if he would come back to Heidelberg.

Accordingly, W. F. Cooke returned in the month of November from Berne, in Switzerland, to Heidelberg, where he took lodgings in the Plockstrasse, in the house No. 97, at that time belonging to the brewer Wilhelm