1824-33 ‘THE HUNTERIAN SOCIETY’ 27 
interest nor yet sufficiently up to date. So Owen 
constrained to attend the outside course given 
i^yDr. Barclay on Practical Anatomy and Anatomy 
nnd Surgery. Though this was an extra which he 
could ill afford, still he never regretted it, for of all 
his teachers at Edinburgh it was to John Barclay 
that he owed the most. Many times has Owen 
spoken of the influence that j ohn Barclay had on 
his early career, and the sincere affection with which 
he inspired him. In the early part of Owen’s 
residence in Edinburgh, he and Gavin Milroy 
founded a students’ society, which was called, 
^t Owen’s suggestion, ‘ The Hunterian Society.’ 
Little did he think how closely connected he 
was afterwards to become with John Hunter’s 
Work. This society was apparently in existence 
for some twenty-five or thirty years afterwards, 
hut is now extinct. The University Professors 
allowed the students the use of one of the college 
rooms for the meetings of the society. 
Amongst Owen’s reminiscences of his student 
days in Edinburgh was the ceremony connected 
With the bringing in of the New Year. On New 
Year’s Eve, 1824-25, sallying forth from his 
lodgings in Nicholson Street, he was met by his 
friends opposite the Tron Kirk, where they as- 
sembled to see the New Year in, and to discuss 
the mysteries of a decoction known as ‘ Het Pint,’ 
the groundwork of which is understood to be 
^le (boiled), with an admixture of whisky and 
