MEMOIR OF JOHN HUNTER. 
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lectures, to be rendered interesting, must be deli- 
■'"ered extempore — a style of lecturing in which Dr 
Hunter had attained the highest possible excellence ; 
I'ut, unfortunately few men were less qualified than 
John to be placed in competition with his brother, 
m this exercise of talent. 
Making anatomical preparations were at this time 
® new art, and very little understood. Every skil- 
ful preparation, therefore, became an object of ad- 
niiration ; and as many of them were required for 
the Use of the lectures, and Dr Hunter had himself 
enthusiasm for the art, lie left no means untried 
to infuse into his brother a love for his favourite 
pursuit. How well he succeeded, the collection 
afterwards made by Mr Hunter will sufficiently 
®rince. 
M’e thus, at length, find Mr Hunter placed in a 
**'tuation which was in every respect adapted to his 
talents and his tastes, and where he was surround- 
od with every advantage calculated to stimulate ami 
direct the application of his energies. 
The late Sir Everard Home remarks, that ana- 
touiy seems to have been a pursuit for which Mr 
Hunter’s mind was peculiarly fitted ; and he applied 
tu it with a perseverance of which there is hardly 
®uy example. He laboured for ten years in this 
branch of science, during which period he not only 
^ocame acquainted with what was already known, 
**ut made considerable additions to that knowledge, 
^ome of his discoveries called forth the highest 
