156 TRUTH, PATHOLOGY, AND PUBLIC. 
more which cannot be seen to advantage, nor 
indeed studied at all, except in carefully designed 
preparations permanently preserved. 
Now, the great promoters of the art of displaying 
Structure without desiccation were William and 
John Hunter, two Lanarkshire brothers. The 
museum of John Hunter, the property of the Col- 
lege of Surgeons, London, is continually and abun- 
dantly added to in a manner which would be 
highly satisfactory to its founder. The museum of 
William Hunter, a wonderful collection, embracing 
books, engravings, paintings, coins, and objects of 
natural history, was bequeathed to this University, 
and finds in Professor Young an enthusiastic cura- 
tor; but its circumstances are most unfortunate as 
regards its anatomical and pathological department, 
the department which is most closely connected 
’ with the reputation of its founder. This interesting 
collection, made by the elder of the two brothers, 
who had the merit of teaching to his younger 
brother the art, is not, like the collection of John 
Hunter, a living centre which gathers to itself the 
best of present work; and this University is at the . 
present moment almost powerless to make it so. 
But there can be no doubt that Glasgow ought 
to be the seat of one of the finest, most actively 
increasing, and most useful pathological collections 
