42 MEMOIR OF JOHN BARCLAY. 



completely removed^ upon knowing that the College 

 has lately thought of purchasing at a very consider- 

 able expense a most valuable anatomical collection 

 on the Continent^ I feel encouraged to offer to it mine,, 

 and to bequeath it simply on the condition, that the 

 College will build a Hall to receive it ; and that the 

 collection shall be allowed to retain my name ; not 

 doubting that the necessary degree of care to preserve 

 it from hastening too fast into decay will be attend- 

 ed to. I have nothing more to add, than to assure 

 you of my high respect for the College, of my warm 

 gratitude for its former kindness, and to request that 

 you will lay these proposals before it, and believe 

 me to be, 



Dear Sir, 



Yours truly, 



(Signed) John Barclay. 

 6, AritYle Square, 

 M July 1821. 

 To 



John Wish art, Esq. 



President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 



The College of Surgeons having at once resolved 

 to avail themselves of this noble bequest, and having 

 agreed, in terms of a deed of settlement subsequently 

 executed by Dr. Barclay, that a Hall should be pro- 

 vided for the suitable accommodation and adequate 

 display of the collection, to be named the Barcleian 

 Museum, it was in 1828 formally conveyed to that 

 learned body, and was shortly afterwards deposited 

 in the splendid building erected by them for their 

 Museum and Library. 



