APPENDIX. 493 



Age. Year. Event. 



55 1783 Purchased the lease of the house No. 29 Leicester Square, 

 and the ground extending to and including a house in 

 Castle Street, and began to build his Museum on the 

 intervening space. 



57 1785 Museum completed, and arrangement of the Preparations 



begun. 



58 1786 PubEshed his ' Observations on the Animal Economy,' 



and his work ' On the Venereal Disease.' Made Dep. 

 Surgeon-General to the Army. 



59 1787 Preparations arranged in the Museum, which was opened 



to Visitors. 

 61 1789 Mr. Wm. Bell left Hunter for an appointment in Su- 

 matra, where he died in 1792. 



64 1792. The printing of the work ' On the Blood and Inflam- 



mation ' was commenced. Mr. "Wm. Clift was articled 

 as an ' apprentice ' to John Hunter. 



65 1793 Died suddenly, October 16th, at St. George's Hospital : 



was buried in St. Martin's Church. 

 1859 "Was re-interred, March 28th, in "Westminster Abbey. 



B. 



Mr. Wm. Clift, F.B.S., Conservator of the Museum of the Boyal 

 College of Surgeons, on examination before the Parliamentary ' Com- 

 mittee on Medical Education,' 1834, states : — • 



" I was Mr. Hunter's apprentice : I came to him in February 1792, 

 and remained with him till his death, on the 16th of October, 1793. 

 During that period I was employed every evening in writing for him, 

 and many of those manuscripts were in my own handwriting." 



To the question by Mr. Warburton, " How was it that you became 

 so intimately acquainted with the nature of Mr. Hunter's manuscripts 

 that were destroyed?" Mr. Clift replies, " I had them occasionally in 

 my possession from 1793 to 1799."— P. 67. 



" I had the collection left in my charge, and I was anxious to make 

 myself acquainted with the nature of their contents ; and they related 

 chiefly to that subject." 



Q. 5385. (Mr. Warburton.) — " What use did you make of the oppor- 

 tunities thus afforded you of becoming acquainted with the contents of 

 those manuscripts?" 



A. (Mr. Clift.) — "I had, I may say, no other books to read at that 



