MEMOIR OF JOHN HUNTER. 
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event too clearly shewed the character of the 
brothers did not qualify either of them to sustain. 
Both the brothers were in the habit of committing 
their views to writing, even when they did not in- 
tond to give them an immediate publicity; and thus 
'0 their works, when at length published, we some- 
ttntes find a record of feelings of an early date, 
"'hich, though not expressed to each other at the 
t'ine, nevertheless operated on their mutual con- 
‘Inct. Thus, Mr John Hunter informs us, that, 
®fter making those investigations on the nerves 
smelling to which we have already alluded, he 
'Wtnediately had drawings taken, with the view of 
Presenting the account to the Royal Society ; but 
®ther puvsuits interposed. Of these very drawings, 
ewever, we find that engravings were afterwards 
'T'^de by Dr William Hunter ; and they, and the 
preparations themselves, were repeatedly displayed 
t’t his lectures, while he at the same time explained 
° r^e students the inferences to be deduced from 
f discovery; — in other words. Dr Hunter appro- 
P'tated to himself the merits of a physical discovery, 
®r*d the physiological views thence derivable, all of 
"^'ch Was properly d;ie to his brother. 
however, was by no means a solitary in- 
stance ; and the particulars of another may be alluded 
) as clearly exhibiting the nature of the offence, 
the cause of the umbrage. In the month of May 
^ 54, Dr Mackenzie, a friend of Mr Hunter’s, had 
***> particularly fortunate in procuring an interesting 
Poftion of anatomical structure, and so struck was 
