As well as teaching, he collected many vertebrate skeletons for his museum of comparative anatomy, published over 70 research papers, and became famous for his public dissection of the Tay Whale.
æz wˈɛl æz tˈiːtʃɪŋ, hiː kəlˈɛktᵻd mˈɛni vˈɜːɾɪbɹˌeɪt skˈɛlᵻtənz fɔːɹ hɪz mjuːzˈiəm ʌv kəmpˈæɹətˌɪv ɐnˈæɾəmi, pˈʌblɪʃt ˌoʊvɚ sˈɛvənti ɹᵻsˈɜːtʃ pˈeɪpɚz, ænd bɪkˌeɪm fˈeɪməs fɔːɹ hɪz pˈʌblɪk daɪsˈɛkʃən ʌvðə tˈeɪ wˈeɪl.