102 LECTURE II. 



he seems much to deHght, that he is a 

 cooking animal. The human teeth are 

 also of great use in the articulation of our 

 words. 



I should certainly not fulfill one of my 

 objects in these Lectures, which is to dis- 

 play, to the extent of my ability, the merits 

 of Mr. Hunter, were I to omit in some 

 part of them, to notice the surprising la- 

 bours he bestowed, in investigating the 

 structure and functions of animals of the 

 whale kind. In all the works of nature, 

 we perceive extreme variety. The teeth 

 are not only various in their formation and 

 re-production, but also in the substances 

 of which they are formed, and the pur- 

 poses which they serve: and as some of 

 the whales present a very curious instance 

 of this sort, I trust I shall be excused, if I 

 introduce the subject on the present oc- 

 casion. In Mr. Hunter's paper relative to 

 the structure and functions of animals of 

 the whale kind, there is abundant evidence 

 of the pecular character of his mind. We 

 see the student of nature on the most 



