80 MEMOIR OF JOHN HUNTER. 



rogated by the Commission on Medical Education, 

 answered, " That all his life he had been employed 

 by Sir Everard in transcribing portions of Mr Hun- 

 ter's manuscripts, and in copying drawings from his 

 portfolios, which Sir Everard issued to the public as 

 his own." And in 1823, the very week in which 

 Sir Everard received from the printer the last proof 

 of his last volume of Comparative Anatomy, when 

 his "career was well nigh run, it is established on his 

 own testimony, that he proceeded to commit to the 

 flames that treasury of science and research which 

 he had so long plundered. 



The irreparable loss which Mr Hunter's museum 

 and the public have sustained by this deplorable 

 transaction, will be judged of by the following quo- 

 tation from the evidence of Mr Clift. " I cannot 

 give an enumeration of half of the papers which were 

 burned. Among those described, were nine folio 

 volumes of Dissections of Animals ; 1st, Ruminants ; 

 2d, Animals sine cceco ; 3d, Monkey and its grada- 

 tions ; 4th, Lion and its gradations ; 5th, Scalpris 

 Dentata ; 6th, Anatomy of Birds ; 7th, Of the Tri- 

 coilia ; 8th Anatomy of Fishes ; 9th, Anatomy of 

 Insects; one volume on the Natural History of Ve- 

 getables. There were also a great number of fasci- 

 culi, among which were the following : Introduction 

 to Natural History ; numerous Physiological Obser- 

 vations ; Comparative Physiology ; Comparison be- 

 tween Man and the Monkey ; On Muscular Motion, 

 being subjects of the Croonian Lectures ; Effects of 



