LECTURE II. 83 



collected the heads of persons of different 

 nations. Yet still I am aware that the 

 Hunterian Museum may by some be con- 

 sidered as deficient in the department of 

 osteology, and, as has been before observed, 

 the minute examination of the form of 

 animals did not come within the scope of 

 Mr. Hunter's designs. 



Having derived much gratification from 

 reading professor Cuvier*s remarks on 

 this subject, and believing that there is 

 much food for meditation even in a ske- 

 leton, I shall put together some observa- 

 tions on the form and mechanism of that 

 of the human subject; for as anatomy is 

 chiefly taught as the ground- work of me- 

 dical and surgical knowledge, such obser- 

 vations are not in general incorporated 

 with systematic treatises on that subject. 



The head is formed into the bony cavity, 

 which contains the brain, called the cra- 

 nium ; and the face, which is the seat of 

 four of the senses, that are situated near 



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