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JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO MUSEUMS IN GLASGOW, 

 LIVERPOOL, DUBLIN, BRISTOL, AND LONDON BY 

 PROFESSOR MACGILLIVRAY IN 1833. 



GLASGOW, BLACK BULL INN, 



Wednesday, 4<tk September 1833. 



HAVING been ordered by the Royal College of Surgeons 

 of Edinburgh to proceed to London, for the purpose of 

 inspecting the anatomical, physiological, and patho- 

 logical museums there, I left the metropolis of Scot- 

 land at nine this morning, and after sitting four and a 

 half hours on the top of a coach, arrived at Glasgow, the 

 second city of that ancient kingdom. Finding myself 

 somewhat benumbed by the cold, I took a stroll along 

 the streets, and coming accidentally upon a large sand- 

 stone quarry, examined it more geologorum. 



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A little after three I went to the College for the 

 purpose of visiting the Museum ; but after ringing and 

 rapping for a considerable time at the door of the latter, 

 was obliged to retrace my steps, when I learned that 

 the keeper admitted no person after three. Here then 

 is my first lesson in the matter of museums, namely, to 



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