82 CONSERVATOR OF SURGEONS’ MUSEUM [ch. iv. 
heads of the bottles are very neatly secured and 
painted in the usual way. . The ticketing and 
numbering neat. Everything in excellent order and 
cleanly. The whole has a finished and beautiful 
appearance.” 
Of the contents of the museum of St Thomas’s 
Hospital he writes very differently :— 
“The preparations illustrative of comparative 
anatomy,” he says, “are in general poor; many of 
them are decayed, the collection is decidedly con¬ 
temptible. In the other departments the prepara¬ 
tions are in general good, but the objects are ill 
arranged, frequently crowded; in other cases the 
reverse. . . . Everything bears the appearance of 
an old institution as much in need of a radical 
reform as a Scotch burgh. 
Besides his comments on the museums there is 
much in the journal of interest otherwise his 
geological observations, his picturesque descriptions 
of scenery and of life, his general reflections, and 
passages of humour, peculiarly characteristic of 
the man, all tend to enhance the value of the 
small MS. volume so neatly written in his own 
hand. 
The minutes of the College, all through Mac- 
Gillivray’s tenure of office in its museum, contain 
evidence of its entire confidence in him, and they 
repeatedly record the College s admiration and 
appreciation of his work. The Museum, during his 
ten years’ charge of it, was kept in perfection of 
order and cleanliness, while much was added to it 
