Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Hunterian Oration: Royal College of Surgeons of England, February 14th, 1895
That these ten volumes of mss. Were included under the words collections and everything belong ing thereto, which John Hunter in his last will directed should be offered to the Government in one lot, is not open to doubt; yet Sir Everard Home, shortly before the transfer of the Collections from Leicester Square to Lincoln's Inn Fields, and there fore after their purchase, had them removed to his own house. The Board of Curators of the Museum of the College appear not to have known that the mss. Had existed until after their destruction.
This irreparable loss looms the larger when we study John Hunter's Anatomical and Physiological Collections; when we ponder on the fragments of his writings rescued from destruction by the solicitude of William Clift, his devoted assistant, our first Conservator; and when we read his lectures and other papers collected and published by this College, and by Palmer and Owen.
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