vi Preface. 



Thomas Keith, on leaving Edinburgh for London, handed over 

 to the Conservator a Series of Tumours illustrating his work 

 in Abdominal Surgery. Dr Bryan C. Waller has presented 

 to the College a collection of Specimens illustrating Medical 

 Pathology, which he purchased from Dr Eutherford Haldane. 

 Besides these, there have been added other smaller collec- 

 tions, to which it does not seem necessary to refer in detail. 

 The " Bell Collection " * was purchased from Mr, afterwards 



* The following account of the Bell Museum was published in 1819, 

 while it was still in Great Windmill Street, London. Although many 

 additions were made to it in the subsequent six years, the account is 

 valuable as a record of the mode of formation of the Museum :-— 



" The formation of this Museum may be divided into three periods — 

 tliat formed by Mr Wilson, that formed by Mr Bell, and the addition made 

 during the last seven years. 



" Mr Bell's original Collection consisted of preparations, both of 

 Natural and Morbid Anatomy. It was particularly valuable in Quicksilver 

 Preparations; in Preparations of the Lymphatics; in Diseased Bones; in 

 Diseases of the Bladder and Urethra; and in Models of Diseased Viscera. 



" The Collection of Mr Wilson was remarkable for the exquisitely neat 

 manner in which the preparations had been dissected and preserved. 

 Its value was principally in the complete Series of Preparations, exhibiting 

 the Minute Structure, and arranged so as to correspond with the Lectures. 

 These must always form an important part of the Present Museum from 

 their intrinsic value, as well as from the Maker, who learned his art under 

 the celebiated Mr Cruickshank (the fine Collection of Mr Cruickshank was 

 bought by the Empress of Russia), the Colleague of Dr Hunter. 



" By the arrangement betwixt Mr Wilson and Mr Bell, Mr Wilson's 

 Preparations became the j^roperty of the latter, and the two Collections 

 were united. Since that period, that is, in the last seven years, great 

 additions have been made (not less than one-third of the whole). To the 

 pupils of that period, it is not necessary to say that this has been done 

 principally through the labours of Mr Shaw. Mr Shaw was a pupil of Mr 

 Bell's at a very early age, and has continued making Preparations under 

 him for eleven years." 



