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APPENDIX. 
SIR E. home’s account OF THE HUNTERIAN 
MUSEUM, LONDON. 
In this Collection we find an attempt to expose 
to view the gradations of nature, from the simplest 
state in ivhich life is found to exist, up to the most 
perfect and complex of the animal creation — Man 
himself. 
By the powers of his art, this collector has been 
enabled so to expose, preserved in spirits, or in a 
dried state, the different parts of animal bodies in- 
tended for similar uses, that the various links of the 
chain of perfection are readily followed, and may be 
clearly understood. 
This collection of .animal facts is arranged accord- 
ing to the subjects they are intended to illustrate, 
which are placed in the following order : 1st, Parts 
constructed for motion ; 2d, Parts essential to ani- 
mals, respecting their own internal economy; 3d, 
Parts superadded for purposes connected with ex- 
ternal objects ; 4th, Parts for the propagation of the 
species, and maintenance or support of the young. 
The first class exhibits the sap of vegetables and 
the blood of animals, from which fluids all the dif* 
