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MEMOIR OF JOHN HUNTER. 
fouiiKiendatioiis of Bai on Haller, then considered the 
first physiologist in Europe, and still command ad- 
miration to the present day. 
It would be out of jdace to enter into details of 
these anatomical and purely professional investiga- 
tions. They were regularly expounded in the lec- 
tures of Dr William Hunter for a succession of 
years, and some of them were published in his Me- 
dical Commentaries. Further information regarding 
them may be found in Dr Simmon’s Life of Dr 
Hunter, to which we refer those who are interested 
in such subjects. The same observation applies to 
Mr Hu liter's’ [labours in the department of surgery, 
which, though of the highest merit, are of such a 
nature as to preclude their being introduced to the 
notice of any but the professional reader. As we 
have already hinted, however, Mr Hunfer's labours 
were not confined to professional investigations. He 
soon discoveretl that human anatomy presented too 
narrow a field for his ardent research. Many parts 
of the human frame being so complex that their 
structure and uses had hitherto baffled inquiry, he 
was led to examine similar jiarts in other animals, 
where the structure was more simiile, and more 
within the reach of observation. Hence he was 
conducted not only to comparative anatomy, but to 
the whole science of zoology, which thencefonvard 
became the favourite pursuit of his life. Even at 
this early stage of his career, we find him laying the 
foundation of that Museum of Comparative Anato- 
