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MEMOIR OF JOHM HUNTER. 
brought of course along with them additional occu- 
pation and anxiety. 
Jn 1792 he was elected one of the oriarinal Vice- 
Presidents of tlie Veterinary College. As soon 
as the nature and object of this institution were 
made known to him, be eagerly joined the scheme, 
urging the advantages which might be derived from 
it, not only as regarded the health of the useful 
quadrupeds, but as affording an additional means of 
advancing our knowledge both of Physiology and 
Pathology. Air Hunter manifested his zeal for the 
cause, by allowing all the jiupils of the College to 
attend his own lectures without expense. 
Two years of the united labours of Mr Hunter, 
Sir E. Home, Mr Bell and iVIr Andre, with their 
assistants, seem to have been devoted to the ar- 
rangement of the museum in the new hall , in Lei- 
cester Square ; and at the end of that period, Mr 
blunter had the proud satisfaction of opening it to 
bis friends and the public. The proofs of skill and 
assiduity displayed in this collection were contem- 
plated by all with mingled admiration and surprise- 
It was exhibited twice a-year; in October to medi- 
cal men, and in May to noblemen and gentlemen 
who were in town only at that season. This prac- 
tice was continued till his death. 
The short account of the museum by Sir E. Home 
is so interesting, and so fitted to prove usefid to the 
naturalist, that we subjoin it in an Appendix. The 
collection already contained more than fourteen 
