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the Museum and Library ; and in order to learn how to arrange the 

 Anatomical Museum in the best form, our enterprising and unwearied 

 founder undertook to visit various collections in France, Germany, and 

 Italy. On his return, the means of founding a Museum and Library 

 appeared so scanty, that it was determined, in 1830, to solicit the aid of 

 the neighbouring patrons of science to extend the plans and the useful- 

 ness of the Institution. This aid was liberally granted, and the donations 

 of our benefactors, to the amount of £900, were expended in the pur- 

 chase of preparations, expensive books of plates, and the fitting up of 

 the Museum and Library. The institution now assumed its present 

 form and feature, and the different offices were filled up as they at 

 present stand." 



In mentioning the names of those benefactors who liberally 

 extended their patronage to the establishment when it stood so 

 greatly in need of it, the learned physician alluded in pointed 

 terms to the Earls of Dartmouth and Bradford, to the Barons of 

 Birmingham of the house of Dudley, to the present noble 

 Baron, Lord Ward, to the late Earl Spencer, and to Lord Lyttel- 

 ton. Of Lord Lyttelton, he observed, that " his Lordship had 

 always been the munificent patron of the arts and sciences of 

 that town, and bis illustrious father-in-law, the late Earl 

 Spencer, has repeated to you, from his own mouth, in your 

 own School, his generous wishes for your welfare : but this 

 is not all — by his influence with the Government, the duties 

 on anatomical preparations, brought to your Museum from 

 foreign parts, have been remitted, he has added to your funds, 

 and he has made a precious addition to your library. To our 

 enlightened and independent representative. Sir Eardley Wilmot, 

 we owe the never to be forgotten boon of patronage given early, 

 when patronage is most efficient; as well as the stimulus oflfered 

 to the exertions of our pupils by the presentation of a gold 

 medal. To Sir Charles Throckmorton we are likewise indebted 

 for early patronage, and also for the riches he has poured into 

 our Museum. It is our boast to have received this proof of 

 patronage from one of the chiefs of our county in ancient 

 family and large possessions — from a gentleman and a scholar, 

 who enrolled his name, in early life, in our profession, and who 

 now, from the claims of oldest standing, is the father of it. Of 

 your benefactors by donation, the name of Mr. Woods, of Coles- 

 hill, will be always prominent in your Museum and Library, 

 from his ample present of books and fossils; as that also of Mr. 

 Freer Proud, of Wolverhampton; and there are many other 

 names which might be added to whose bounty we are indebted — 

 many present and many absent, who, I trust, will not think us 

 ungrateful or unmindful because the allotted time does not 

 admit of further enumeration. But I hope to be forgiven if, in 

 departing from this rule, I allude to one other name, which I 

 should fail indeed in justice were I to omit, although it is the 

 name of a brother. The merits of Dr. Edward Johnstone to this 

 School can never be forgotten by those who know the zeal and 



