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rations, which were chiefly of human anatomy. From that 

 time till 1810, the collection received, under Walter's superin- 

 tendence, an addition of 162 preparations ; under Rudolphi's 

 direction it was increased by the accession of 3964? preparations. 

 At the same time the magazine received several thousand ob- 

 jects, of which the larger portion were already prepared, but 

 could not be displayed on account of the expense.* 



Rudolphi had therefore the merit of founding the zootomical 

 museum ; and although this collection cannc^t compete with the 

 museums of Paris and Leyden in regard to skeletons, yet it can 

 bear comparison with the first foreign collections as to prepara- 

 tions of the soft parts ; in the department of human and patho- 

 logical anatomy our collection holds a distinguished place even 

 among the best. It must also be remembered, that the museum 

 has only existed since 1803 as a public establishment, — that the 

 collection was extended so as to include comparative anatomy 

 only since the founding of the university in 1810, — that our 

 zootomical means are more limited than those of London, Paris, 

 and Leyden, — -and that our commercial connections are incon- 

 siderable. A maritime nation is, in this respect, in possession 

 of extraordinary advantages; and our wonder is with justice 

 excited in hearing that the Garden of Plants at Paris, with its 

 mineralogical, botanical, zoological, and anatomical collections, 

 supports eight travellers in the most remote quarters of the 

 globe.-|- 



Rudolphi, by his talents for teaching, and by his personal 

 qualities, soon acquired a high reputation ; and not only on ac- 



• By the exhibition of a great many preparations which had been pre- 

 pared by Rudolphi, but which could not be displayed in his time, and of 

 preparations made since that period, the number of the objects in the ana- 

 tomical museum now amounts to 11,000, in which only the perfect ones are 

 reckoned, and the abundant materials of the magazine (about 3000) are not 

 included. The preparations of the comparative anatomy of the races of the 

 human species are 214 in number, among which there are 16 skeletons of 

 non-European races, and 134 skulls of different races. The osteological 

 collection of vertebrate animals, includes 434 entire skeletons of mammalia, 

 336 of birds, 154 of amphibia, and 279 of fishes. The pathological de- 

 partment of the anatomical collection is jmrticularly rich in monsters, in 

 diseases of the bones, and specifically determined tumours. 



+ Rapport sur les heaoins du museum (Thistoire natiirelle pour Vannee 1835, 

 present^ au minutre dt V instruction publique, Paris 1834. 



