feO MKMOiK OF JOHN HUNTER. 
rogateil by the Cotniiiission on Medical Education, 
answered, “ That all his life he liad been employed 
by Sir Everard in transerihing portions of Mr Hun- 
ter’s manuscripts, and in copying drawingsfrom his 
portfolios, which Sir Everard issued to the public as 
his own.” And in 1823, the verv week in which 
Sir Everard received from the printer the last proof 
of his last volume of Comparative Anatomy, wh.en 
his career was well nigh run, it is established on his 
own testimony, that he proceeded to commit to the 
flames that treasury of science and research which 
he had so long plundered. 
The iireparable loss which Mr Hunter’s museum 
and the public have sustained by this deplorable 
transaction, will be judged of by the following quo- 
tation from the evidence of Mr Clift. “ I cannot 
give an enumeration of half of the papers which were 
burned. Among those described, were nine folio 
volumes of Dissections of Animals; Ist, lliiminants ; 
2d, Animals sine cmco ; 3il, Monkey and its grada- 
tions ; 4th, Lion and its gradations ; 5th, Scalpris 
Dentata ; 6th, Anatomy of Birds ; 7th, Of the Tri- 
coilia ; 8th Anatomy of Fishes ; 9th, Anatomy of 
Insects ; one volume on the Natural History of Ve- 
getables. There were also a great number of fasci- 
culi, among which were the following : Introduction 
to Natural History ; numerous Physiological Obser- 
vations ; Comparative Physiology ; Comparison be- 
tween Man and the Monkey ; On Muscular Motion, 
being subjects of the Crooniaii Lectures ; Effects of 
