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The original documents explanatory of the physiological de- 

 partment of the collection are the following : 



Firat, A manuscript catalogue, in Mr. Hunter's handwriting, 

 without date, but probably written soon after his return from 

 Portugal in the year 1763. It briefly defines the nature of 

 about two hundred specimens. In this catalogue the natural 

 and morbid structures are grouped together in classes according 

 to the organs ; there is then a short series of ' Monsters,' fol- 

 lowed by specimens of natural history, under the heads of 

 4 Beasts,' ' Lizards/ and ' Snakes/ The articles included in 

 the two latter series were collected for the most part in Portugal, 

 Spain, and Belleisle. This was the germ of the future Hunterian 

 collection, and the foundation of its several departments, the 

 pathological having heen afterwards separated .from the physio- 

 logical preparations. It may not be uninteresting to record 

 the first method of classification, in which the specimens are 

 arranged according to the organs. It is as follows : 



Class I. ' Of the Brain, Medulla, and Nerves :' then follow, 

 ' Heart and Vessels ; ' ' Larynx and (Esophagus ; ' ' Stomach,' 

 'Intestines,' 'Anus,' ' Liver, "Gall-bladder/ 'Spleen/ 'Kidneys/ 

 ' Capsula renalis/ ' Parts of Generation/ ' Eyelids/ ' Eyes/ 

 ' Ears/ ' Nose/ ' Tongues/ ; Skin/ ' Bones/ < Epiploon/ ' Oils/ 

 ' Ligaments.' 



The series of the ' Kidney ' includes, even at this early period, 

 specimens of the injected tubuli uriniferi in the Monkey (' S. 6/ 

 now No. 1235) ; in the Horse (< S. 9 and S. 10,' now Nos. 1209 

 and 1210) ; and in the Ass (' S. 12/ now No. 1208). The same 

 series likewise displays the superficial arborescent veins in the 

 kidney of the Lion and Leopard, and the reticulate arrangement 

 of the same veins of the Seal, and it terminates with the con- 

 glomerate kidney of the Porpoise. The series of the 'Nose' 

 contains the preparation of the fifth pair of nerves in the nose, 

 figured in the -'Animal (Economy, PI. XVII. and XVIIL," 

 where it is described as having been made in the year 1754 *. 

 The original number of this specimen in the old catalogue is 

 * c. 4/ it is now No. 1550 : it has thus been preserved eighty- 

 * Animal (Economy, 1792, p. 261. 



