ADVERTISEMENT. 



It was known to some friends of Mr. Clift, F.R.S., Conservator 

 of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, that, during the 

 period between 1793 and 1800, when he had sole charge of the 

 Hunterian Collection and Manuscripts, he had copied some pro- 

 portion of the latter before they were removed from the Museum 

 in Castle Street, Leicester Square, by the Executor, Sir Everard 

 Home. 



Of this fact I first became aware when engaged in preparing the 

 1 Catalogue of the Physiological Series of the Hunterian Collection 

 in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons,' having then 

 received from Mr. Clift transcripts of MSS. containing Hunter's 

 schemes of classification of animals according to the Heart, Brain, 

 &c, printed in the third volume of that Catalogue, 1835, as from 

 " the Copy of a Hunterian Manuscript in the possession of Mr. 

 Clift," p. v ; and, subsequently, copies of Mr. Clift's transcripts of 

 Hunter's "Experiments on the Impregnation of Ewes/' "ib. of 

 Sows," and " Observations on the Humble-bee," which are printed 

 in the fifth volume of that Catalogue, 4to. 1840, pp. 38, 131, 

 and 135. 



A short time previous to Mr. Clift's decease, he placed in my 

 hands the whole of his transcripts of the Hunterian Manuscripts, 

 with an autograph statement of the important fact ; and a ' Note ' 

 respecting those MSS. which will be -found in the Appendix B, 

 p. 497. 



