32G LECTURE VII. 



tion of it, and throughout the whole, We 

 observe Mr. Hunter's solicitude to procure 

 evidences of every important fact relative 

 to the subjects in which he was so greatly 

 interested ; and also the same genius and 

 reflection displayed, in endeavouring to 

 interpret the works of Nature, and to ar- 

 I'ange and concatenate the facts, according 

 to their series and order, so that each 

 should be distinctly seen, both by itself and 

 in relation to others. 



Now, though what I have said is so in- 

 commensurate to the merits of the man I 

 have endeavoured to eulogize, or with the 

 claims of the subject I have attempted to 

 discuss, yet I flatter myself that I have 

 attained the objects I had in view in 

 writing these Lectures. I wished to show 

 in what manner Mr. Hunter had examined 

 the various vital processes, and also the 

 general extent of his researches in Com- 

 parative Anatomy, and consequently from 

 what an extensive and well arranged series 

 of facts, his notions of life had been de- 



