1833-36 LETTER FROM SIR ANTHONY CARLISLE 87 



explained. This never could be done by local 

 exhibition and by local lecturings. The press 

 and the engraver were always the proper modes 

 of showing and diffusing the system of medical 

 science contained in the College Museum ; and 

 to that object we are bound to devote ourselves 

 while the Council have the will and the means 

 to publish an illustrated catalogue. I was sorry 

 under these strong impressions to read your name 

 as a Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy at St. 

 Bartholomew's Hospital, first because I know that 

 it will endanger your powerful position in the Col- 

 lege, for, whether those lectures may be received 

 with indifference or applause, the consequences 

 must be unpleasant. In the multitude of lectur- 

 ings which surgical and medical students are 

 required to attend, few students will have time 

 and still fewer the desire to study philosophical 

 anatomy. But if your well-deserved reputation 

 should promise you a remunerative class, and 

 give public renown to the hospital where those 

 lectures are delivered, what will the rival 

 hospital schools say ? They will appeal to the 

 College ; they will quote the express prohibition 

 in our bye-laws, and place us all in painful 

 circumstances. I think that at no distant time 

 the London University and King's College will 

 become the great schools for elementary medical 

 instruction, and the hospitals remain the scenes 

 of practical information. Then, indeed, physio- 



