1855-56 hunter on fossil bones 3 
with one small exception, relating to the verte- 
brated province of the series arranged according to 
the classes of animals. ... In the session of last 
year I concluded the series of lectures in which the 
animal organisation was treated of according to 
the classes of animals, beginning with the lowest 
and ending with the highest 
‘ Now John Hunter had not neglected the field 
of anatomical inquiry presented by fossil organic 
remains. He lived to publish little respecting 
them. The scientific world probably first became 
aware of the fact that he had paid any attention 
at all to them when Hunter communicated to 
the Royal Society of London, in 1793! paper 
on the fossil bones presented to that Society 
by His Most Serene Highness the Margrave of 
Anspach. . . . Those men accustomed to think, 
who heard or read that paper, would recognise in 
it the mind of the great Master. It is character- 
ised by the same broad views and acute insight 
into the phenomena under review, by the same 
unexpected illustrations, which only a wide em- 
brace of facts could have suggested, by the same 
bold excursions into fields stretching away far 
beyond the immediate subject of the memoir, which 
peculiarly mark all the papers from Hunter’s pen. 
‘ In those letters which are introduced into the 
life of John Hunter prefixed to Palmer’s edition 
of his works, scarcely one of them omits a recom- 
mendation to Jenner to secure for his correspon- 
