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ANATOMICAL MITSEUM. 



I could not inspect everything, and the Museum of Comparative 

 Anatomy, under Sir William Turner, possessed most that was to my 

 interest to visit. In 172(1 Alexander Munro, then onh^ 22 years old, 

 was professor of anatomy here; his son, Alexander Munro 2d, occupied 

 the same position for fifty years, and Munro 3d until 1846. He was 

 succeeded by John Goodsir, and tiie latter in 1S07 by A\'. Turner, all 

 anatomists of world-wide reputation. The collection was founded Iw 

 Munro 2d, and is unusually valuable. Turner, with R. Rowland 

 Anderson, the architect of the entire School of Medicine, planned the 

 new museum in 1876. It was designed and executed after the pattern 



Fig. 91.— University of Ediubur^h. Anatomical Museum. 



of the Roj^al College of Surgeons in London (see p. 528), and was com- 

 pleted in 1885. It cost $57,000, and. in addition, its interior installation 

 (cases, etc.), cost $42,000. It comprises a large hall, without colunuis, 

 provided with a skylight, and two galleries, one above the other (tig. 

 91), its interior dimensions being approximately 37 meters long, 13 

 wide, and 14 high. The stairs to the galleries, one fligiit at each end, 

 are narrow and steep, as in the Royal College of Surgeons in London; 

 they are used only by students, for the great public visits the nmseura 

 Imt little. The skylight consists of a horizontal layer of frosted glas.s 

 panes, and above this a glass roof with a grating along thc^ middle and 

 inclined sides. The space between these two sets of windows is so 



