18 H. Goadbyon making wet Preparations of Animal Substances. 
attempt a form of vessel that should agree, as far as possible in 
all general particulars, with the pans, in which, I used then, and 
still continue, to dissect. Believing glass to be the very best ma- 
terial for my purpose, I consulted several operative glass-grinders 
on the subject ; who all declared the work I required could not 
be done, and that if it could be accomplished, the cost would 
prove prohibitory. Not to be diverted from my purpose, nor dis- 
couraged by the statements of the glass-grinders, I determined to 
try and work out my plans with my own hands, although I had 
not received education in any branch of mechanics. Moreover, 
in connection with my project as a whole, I required a good ce- 
ment for the glass vessels, and some other preserving fluid than 
cohol. These subjects occupied me more or less for twenty 
years, during which time the failures were frequently quite disheart- 
ening, chiefly as regarded the mechanical part. On one occasion, 
ssessed about three dozen of glass vessels, each full of fluid, 
street, London. In an evil hour I submitted my preparations to 
this instrument; the intense heat of the gases melted my cement, 
allow of their being treated in the way already described, 
although their characters can be preserved only as wet prepara- 
* The preparations here alluded to were subsequently purchased from me for 
£500 sterling, or $2500, by a private pierre, rade by H. R. H. Prince 
Albert, and presented by the su i to the Hunterian Collection, in the Royal 
College of Surgeons, where now i 
were also rewarded by 
’ remain. 
They late Sir Robert Peel, at that time First Lord of — 
te rrcasury, Who presented me with a check, on the Royal bounty fund, for £150 
