APPENDIX. 307 



Extract. 

 18, Nelson Street, Commercial Road, 



16th March, 1831. 

 Dear Sir, 

 I received the package you did me the honour to forward, and read its 

 contents with much satisfaction, especially your very neat, comprehensive, 

 and instructive Synopsis, " A Dissertation on the Component Parts of the 

 Animal Body." You have in these little tracts contributed essentially 

 to those most important branches of human knowledge, Anatomy, Physi- 

 ology, and Animal Chemistry, by placing the materials in a very simplified 

 and very clear arrangement. In the modern rage for novelty, the task of 

 arranging and clearing the science of obscurity and confusion is of the 

 utmost importance, and requires more solid erudition and study than 

 usually fall to the lot of fortunate and often visionary discoverers. 



I should feel obliged by your enclosing per post your Phrenological 

 card. 



I am, Sir, most respectfully, your obedient servant, 



J. HANCOCK, M. D. 



Extract from a letter from Thomas Firth, Esq., Professor on Anatomy 

 and Surgery. 



48, Clifton Street, Finsbury Square. 

 Dear Sir, 



I thank you for your politeness in offering to send me the remarks which 



you are about to publish, * and beg to assure you that it will always afford 



me, not only pleasure but instruction in the perusal of any thing from the 



pen of so distinguished an Anatomist as yourself. 



I am, dear Sir, yours truly, 



THOMAS FIRTH. 

 21st May, 1831. 



To H. W. Dewhurst, Esq., Professor of Anatomy, &c. &c. 



Extracted from the Scientific Gazette of June, 1831. 

 " Mr. Dewhurst, who must be very advantageously known to the 

 readers of the Scientific Gazette, for his interesting and important com- 

 munications to our Journal, is an active and indefatigable cultivator of 

 science in one of its most important, if not its most popular departments. 

 It has long been a matter of just complaint that science has been too much 

 obscured by its technical terms ; this in a very peculiar manner applies to 

 Anatomy. In one department of this subject, Mr. Dewhurst has suc- 

 cessfully applied in lieu of an abstruse and unconnected nomenclature 



* The Essay on the minute Anatomy and Physiology of the organs of 

 Vision in Man and Animals. 



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