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APPENDIX. 



SIR E. HOMES ACCOUNT OF THE HUNTERU V 

 MUSEUM, LONDON. 



IN this Collection we find an attempt to expose 

 to view the gradations of nature, from the simplest 

 state in which life is found to exist, up to the most 

 perfect and complex of the animal creation Man 

 himself. 



By the powers of his art, this collector has been 

 enabled so to expose, preserved in spirits, or in a 

 dried state, the different parts of animal bodies in- 

 tended for similar uses, that the various links of the 

 chain of perfection are readily followed, and may be 

 clearly understood. 



This collection of animal facts is arranged accord- 

 ing to the subjects they are intended to illustrate, 

 which are placed in the following order : 1st, Parts 

 constructed for motion ; 2d, Parts essential to ani- 

 mals, respecting their own internal economy; 3d, 

 Parts superadded for purposes connected with ex- 

 ternal objects ; 4th, Parts for the propagation of the 

 species, and maintenance or support of the young. 



The first class exhibits the sap of vegetables and 

 the blood of animals, from which fluids all the dif- 



