48 MEMOIR OF JOHN HUNTER. 



Jermyn Street was speedily occupied by it. It was 

 about this time, that, having received the present of 

 a stuffed cameleopard, which, from its height, could 

 not otherwise be placed, he, with true surgical skill, 

 subjected it to the operation of a temporary ampu- 

 tation of the legs, and so accommodated it in the 

 lobby. 



Earl's Court, though a delightful retirement to 

 Mr Hunter from the fatigues of his profession, did 

 in no respect afford a cessation from labour. On 

 the contrary, his researches were carried on there 

 with less interruption, and with an unwearied per- 

 severance. From this time (1772) till his death, he 

 made it his custom to sleep at Earl's Court during 

 the autumn months, coming to town only during 

 the hours of business in the forenoon, arid returning 

 lo dinner. 



It was here he carried on his experiments on di- 

 gestion, on exfoliation, on the transplanting of teeth 

 into the combs of cocks, and all his other investiga- 

 tions on the animal economy. Not only the com- 

 mon bee, but the wasp, the hornet, and the less 

 known species of bees, were made subjects of in- 

 vestigation. Here also he made his series of pre- 

 parations of the external and internal changes @f the 

 ^ilk-worm ; also, as before noticed, a complete series 

 of the incubation of the egg. Here, too, it wan that 

 he pastured and trained those buffaloes which he 

 put into harness and trotted through the street* of 

 London BO late as 1792. The growth of vegetable 



