370 ANATOMICAL PREPARATIONS 
rounding fubftance, and leaves them entirely naked and 
perfectly expofed to the eye. I once fhewed a preparati-~ 
on of the veffels of a kidney I had thus executed at Paris, 
to a meeting of the French academy of furgery in the year 
1764, who allowed it to be curious and quite new to them. 
I think none of the members prefent at that meeting, ex- 
cept Monf. Morand, fecretary of that academy, who had 
been in England and was acquainted with doGtor Hunter, 
alledged their having ever feen a fimilar preparation. 
At their requeft I prefented a memoir on the fubject, and 
fince that time Monf. Siie has beftowed one entire fection 
in treating exprefsly upon it, with a polite acknowledge- 
ment of his having acquired his knowledge from me, on- 
ly with the particularity of naming me as one of the facul- 
ty of Edinburgh, without taking any notice of my being 
a Pennfylvanian by birth, or native of America, which 
have led fome into miftakes concerning the author of that 
piece. The reafon may be that Americans before the 
revolution, being but little confidered in any other light 
than as colonifts, their nation was feldom taken notice of, 
and I was introduced to him firft as a graduate of the 
univerfity of Edinburgh, and known to him afterwards as 
a member of the royal college of phyficians of that place. 
Thefe preparations are, fince that period, become com= 
mon in France, and the art is now well known, and cul- 
tivated fuccefsfully by Monf. Siie and others; but it was 
unknown there till I communicated it, firft at Paris, and 
afterward in the fouth of France; where I had the honour 
of explaining it to the illuftrious Monf. Imbert, chancellor 
of the univerfity at Montpelier, and to Monf. Bourgelas, 
principal of the Ecole veterenaire, or academy eftablifhed 
at Lyons for the improvement of the fcience of horfeman- 
fhip, juftly celebrated for his very elegant preparations of 
the anatomy of horfes, &c. But what gave me equal 
pleafure and furprize, was the admiration excited on my 
prefenting 
