62 MEMOIR OF JOHN HUNTER. 



the Royal Society of Medicine, and of the Royal 

 Academy of Surgery, at Paris. 



Mr Hunter continued twelve years in his house 

 hi Jermyn Street, when the lease having expired, 

 and the house affording very inadequate accommoda- 

 tion for his musei^m, he was necessitated to remove. 

 After many difficulties and disappointments, he pur- 

 chased the lease of a large house in Leicester Square, 

 and the whole lot of ground extending to Castle 

 Street, in which there was another house ; and in 

 the middle space between the two, he erected a 

 building for his museum, on which he expended 

 L. 3000. 



In this building there was a spacious apartment 

 fifty-two feet long, by twenty-eight wide, lighted 

 from the top, and having a gallery all round for ac- 

 commodating his preparations. Under this there 

 were two apartments, one for his class-room, and 

 another afterwards used for weekly meetings of his 

 medical friends, during the winter. To this build- 

 ing the house in Castle Street was entirely subser- 

 vient ; its rooms being used for the different branches 

 of human and comparative anatomy. 



His museum continued to enlarge with increasing 

 rapidity, for which he was in no small degree in- 

 debted to the friendship of Sir Joseph Banks, who 

 not only allowed him to take any of his own speci- 

 mens, but procured him every curious animal pro- 

 duction in his power, and afterwards divided be- 

 twixt him and the British Museum all the specimens 



