APPENDIX. 495 



" Sackville Street, March 9th, 1824. 

 " Sir, — I beg you will acquaint the Board of Curators, that Mr. 

 Hunter desired that, after his death, his manuscripts should not be 

 entrusted to anybody, but were to be destroyed, being in too imperfect a 

 state for the public eye. 



" With a view to afford every material that could assist in the forma- 

 tion of the Catalogue, I spent my leisure hours in the Museum for ten 

 years, taking every assistance these papers could afford, and at the end 

 of thirty years, my own health becoming precarious, I closed my 

 executorship by destroying them. 



" I am Sir, yours truly, 



" Everard Home." 

 " Mr. Belfour, Secretary, Royal College of Surgeons." 



The following is the list of these MSS. Those copied by Mr. Clift 

 are marked C ; and reference is made to the volume and page of such 

 as are printed in the present "Work : — 



Q. 5131. (Mr. Warburton, p. 65). — " "Will you refer to any memo- 

 randa you have on the subject, and state, as nearly as you can, what the 

 papers were that were destroyed '?" 



A. (Mr. Clift). — "Among them were nine folio volumes of Dissec- 

 tions of Animals, viz., 



" Yol. 1. Ruminants. (C. ii. 128.) 



2. Animals sine cceco. (C. ii. 66 — 95, 176 — 196.) 



3. Monkey and its gradations. (C. ii. 4 — 34.) 



4. Lion and its gradations. (C. ii. 35 — 65.) 



5. Scalpris dentata. (C. ii. 196 — 247.) 



6. Anatomy of Birds. (C. ii. 270—331.) 



7. Anatomy of the Tricoilia. (C. ii. 332—398.) 



8. Anatomy of Fishes. (C. ii. 399—424.) 



9. Anatomy of Insects. (C. ii. 427—483.) 

 Natural History of Vegetables l . (i. 340— 368 . ) 

 Introduction to Natural History. (C. i. 1.) 

 Numerous Physiological Observations. (C. i. 113 — 183.) 

 Comparative Physiology — Comparison between Man and the 



Monkey. (C. i. 43.) 

 On Muscular Motion 2 . 



1 [This MS. was not destroyed ; a copy of it was transmitted to the College of 

 Surgeons in 1839, by Capt. Sir Everard Home, Bart., after whose decease the original 

 was most kindly presented to me, by his nephew and executor, Ed. Eushworth, Esq., 

 in May I860.] 



2 [This MS., which formed the subject of the Croonian Lectures, read by Hunter 



