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JIEMOIR OF JOHN HUNTER. 
by certain new regulations of tlie Hospital, he re- 
solved to attend at tlie Board, and run the certain 
risk of a violent trial of temper. On the morning 
of the Board day, he told a baronet who happened 
to call upon him, that ho was going to the Hospital, 
that he was fearful some unpleasant rencontre might 
ensue, and if it did, he knew it must he his death. 
The event was too literally fulfilled. He went to 
the Hospital on the 16th October 179.3, in his usual 
state of health. Meeting with things which irritated 
him, and not being perfectly mSister of the circum- 
stances, he withheld his sentiments, and in this state 
of restraint went into the next room, where, turning 
round to Dr Robertson, one of the Physicians of the 
Hospital, he gave a deep groan, dropt down, and ex- 
pireil. 
Air Hunter was in his 65th year, the same age 
as that at which his brother died. 
Such was the end of two brothers who had raised 
themselves to the highest celebrity' by courses nearly 
similar, though distinguished by broad and charac- 
teristic marks of difference. . In one remarkable 
point they both agreed, viz. that each left behind 
him a museum justly considered to be of national 
importance. Dr William bequeathed his Collection 
to the University of Glasgow, and Air Hunter’s was 
eventually purchased by Government. It was en- 
trusted to the care of the Roj'al College of Surgeons 
of London, who celebrate Air Hunter’s birth-dayi 
