SIEMOIR OF JOHN HUNTER. 
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six lectures, wliich were (lellvered in as many 
ysars. Ill these lectures he collected his numerous 
®Wrvations on Muscles — treated of their powers, 
^t>(| the effects of the stimuli by wliicli they are af- 
^•^cted — an<l illustrated these points by comparative 
observations upon the moving powers of plants. 
The efforts of the Humane Society having drawn 
""*ch public attention about this time, in conse- 
^Oence of the exertions of Dr Cogan and Dr Hawes, 
''nd the institution having at length been recognised 
a royal establishment, .Mr Hunter’s abilities were 
Put in requisition bv his friends, anil he accordingly 
"^oad a lone and interesting paper on the subject in 
’be Roynl Society, entitled, “ Proposals for the re- 
overy of persons apparently drowned.” 
In 1777, he read a second paper on the heat of 
’’'"tnals and vegetables ; and at this time published 
'6 Second part of his treatise on the Teeth. In 
'9, he gave a descrijition of the Free-Martin in 
Thilosopliioal Transactions ; and in rapid suc- 
’^®ssion, an account of an extraordinary Pheasant — 
’'f the Organ of Hearing in Fishes — on a new Ma- 
’”*6 Animal — observations on the Wolf, Jackall, 
Dog — on the Structure and Economy of Whales 
finally, as late as 1792, Observations on Bees, 
‘’^'des these, other papers appeared in his work on 
Animal Economy, published in 1786. Several 
on natural history. Such, for example, was 
paper on the Secretion in the Crop of Breeding 
'Saons for the nourishment of their young — on 
