MEMOIR O* JOHN HUNTER. 8C 



ate very sparingly at dinner, and rarely drank more 

 than a glass of wine, often not that. In the even- 

 ing he was engaged in writing down the observations 

 he had made during the day ; in preparing his lec- 

 tures, or advancing his next forthcoming publication. 

 He seldom retired to rest till twelve or one o'clock. 

 lie was thus seldom more than four hours in bed, 

 but he usually indulged himself with a siesta for an 

 hour after dinner. 



He was eminently distinguished by his public 

 spirit. He valued money no farther than as it 

 enabled him to prosecute and extend his various 

 and nearly endless researches. Hurried on by the 

 ambition of benefiting mankind at large, he paid 

 little attention to his own or his family's interests : 

 and whether viewed in a professional light, or as a 

 man of science, his zeal for his profession on the 

 one hand, and for Natural History on the other, 

 "ichly entitles him to the gratitude of posterity. 



