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more which cannot be seen to advantage, nor 

 indeed studied at all, except in carefully designed 

 preparations permanently preserved. 



Now, the great promoters of the art of displaying 

 structure without desiccation were William and 

 John Hunter, two Lanarkshire brothers. The 

 museum of John Hunter, the property of the Col- 

 lege of Surgeons, London, is continually and abun- 

 dantly added to in a manner which would be 

 highly satisfactory to its founder. The museum of 

 William Hunter, a wonderful collection, embracing 

 books, engravings, paintings, coins, and objects of 

 natural history, was bequeathed to this University, 

 and finds in Professor Young an enthusiastic cura- 

 tor ; but its circumstances are most unfortunate as 

 regards its anatomical and pathological department, 

 the department which is most closely connected 

 with the reputation of its founder. This interesting 

 collection, made by the elder of the two brothers, 

 who had the merit of teaching to his younger 

 brother the art, is not, like the collection of John 

 Hunter, a living centre which gathers to itself the 

 best of present work ; and this University is at the 

 present moment almost powerless to make it so. 

 But there can be no doubt that Glasgow ought 

 to be the seat of one of the finest, most actively 

 increasing, and most useful pathological collections 



