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have already mentioned, he has been particu- 

 larly earnest in his attention to comparative ana- 

 tomy. He has a house and gardens in the 

 country, on purpose for his experiments on 

 living animals and vegetables. For the last five 

 years he has employed in his house an ingenious 

 draughtsman, who is engaged, at a regular 

 salary, for ten years j and also another person, 

 engaged for the same time, to manage and keep 

 his preparations in order. He means to class 

 the animal world according to their structure, 

 in which he has made considerable advances. 

 His objection to standing forth as a public 

 teacher still continued — and it was only over- 

 come by the intercessions of his friends, and 

 by his own consciousness that he might be use- 

 ful to students, in explaining the principles and 

 analogies which he had observed in diseases, 

 and reducing thereby the art to a more regular 

 and less precarious system. Dr. Hunter's li- 

 brary is, perhaps, the finest in Europe in choice, 

 scarce, and valuable copies, and it cost 16,000/. 

 Mr. Hunter's is comprehended in a few cases, 

 and were it not, he says himself, for the presents 

 made him by contemporary authors, would 

 hardly have consisted of a hundred volumes. 

 His opinions, therefore, are all his own, drawn 

 from personal observation j — he does not say 

 that every doctrine is new — some of his opinions 



