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NATURAL HISTORY. 



JOHN HUNTER. 



form is the largest and most complete collection of objects 

 illustrative of comparative anatomy which exists in this 

 country. 



John Hunter was the youngest son of a small Lanark- 

 shire farmer, and was named after his father. He was 

 born at Long Calderwood, in the parish of Easter 

 Kilbride, on the i4th of February 1728. His father 

 died when he was only ten years old, and he seems to 

 have been allowed to grow up very much as he liked, 

 with the result that his early education was much 

 neglected, and he never in later life acquired the 

 literary knowledge which he should have obtained when 



