78 
PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. III. 
In January 1859 Frank Buckland was struck 
with the idea of rescuing the remains of John 
Hunter from the vaults of St. Martin-in-the- 
Fields, and re-interring them in Westminster 
Abbey. An account of his proceedings is given 
in his ‘Curiosities of Natural History.’^ There 
he narrates how he found in the queer-looking 
old register of burials in St. Martin’s Church the 
following mysterious entry : — 
‘Oct. 22, 1793. Leisester Squar. 
‘ M. John Hunter, Esq., J past 4 o’clock, 
6/. lO.?. id. No candles. N.-3-V. Duty, '^d. 
C.q.ij. yC 
‘ Aperplexy.’ 
He examined literally hundreds of coffins until 
there were only two left. But finally, on the 
brass plate of the last, to his great joy he read 
the inscription ; — 
‘John Hunter, Esq. 
Died 16 Octr. 
1793 - 
Aged 64 years.’ 
The Hunters' arms — viz. a hand with an arrow 
on it — also the three horns of the hunter, were 
engraved upon the plate. 
^ Vol. ii. p. 159. 
