LECTURE I. 25 



least trench upon the province of my 

 brother Professor ; for I shall not describe 

 facts, nor detail opinions ; I shall not ex- 

 amine the materials, but merely the con- 

 struction and utility of certain instruments 

 which the hand of Hunter either formed or 

 finished. 



When I first had the honour of address- 

 ing the members of the College in this 

 theatre, I knew it would be expected that 

 I should eulogize Mr. Hunter ; and nothing 

 loth, I declared that he seemed to me to 

 possess that rare combination of intellec- 

 tual powers which qualified him equally to 

 extend the boundaries of knowledge and to 

 establish principles of science and practice. 

 Of his opinions, I said I knew of none that 

 had not been cautiously and legitimately 

 deduced from the facts before him, and 

 though the progress of science might have 

 since invalidated some, yet most of them, 

 from the same cause, had become more 

 and more firmly established. In proof of 

 the latter part of this proposition, I excited 



