MEMOIR OF JOHN HUNTER. 
83 
St dinner, and rarely drank more 
in of wine, often not that. In the eren- 
lie h ^ engaged in writing down the observations 
tiir during the day ; in preparing his lec- 
or advancing his next forthcoming publication, 
jj® seldom retired to rest till twelve or one o’clock, 
but seldom more than four hours in bed, 
, he usually indulged himself with a siesta for an 
after dinner. 
It 
®piti ^ eminently distinguished by his public 
«nabl' "valued money no farther than as it 
and prosecute and extend his 
various 
endless researches. Hurried on by the 
httle”*°*^ "f benefiting mankind at large, he paid 
ajjj ®^’‘ention to his own or his family’s interests ; 
'nan"^ ^ewed in a professional light, or as a 
oug science, his zeal for his profession on the 
ftch] ***'^’. Natural History on the other, 
y entitles him to the gratitude of posterity. 
