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 lechir- 
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 retminerative 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- 
