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MEMOIR OF JOHN HUNTER. 
tlte Royal Society of Medicine, and of the Royr.l 
Academy of Sui-gery, at Paris. . 
Mr Hunter continued twelve years in his house 
ill Jermyn Street, when the lease having expired, 
and the house affording very inadequate accommoda- 
tion for his museum, he was necessitated to remove- 
After many difficulties and disappointments, he pur- 
chased the lease of a large house in Leicester Square, 
and the whole lot of ground extending to Castle 
Street, in which there was another house ; and in 
the middle space between the two, he erected a 
building for his museum, on which he expended 
L. 3000. 
In this building there was a spacious apartment 
fifty- two feet long, by twenty-eight wide, lighted 
from the top, and having a gallery all round for ac- 
commodating his preparations. Under this there 
were two apartments, one for his class room, and 
another afterwards used for weekly meetings of his 
medical frientis, during the winter. To this build- 
ing the house in Castle Street was entirely subser- 
vient ; its rooms being used for the different branches 
of human and comparative anatomy. 
His museum continued to enlarge with increasing 
rapidity, for which he was in no small degree in- 
debted to the friendship of Sir Joseph Banks, who 
not only allowed him to take any of his own speci' 
mens, but procured liim every curious animal pro- 
duction in his power, and afterwards divided be- 
twixt him and the British Museum all the specimens 
