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 WILLIAM HUNTER. 223 her Majesty. His avocations now multiplied themselves so rapidly, that he was obliged to seek an assistant for his lectures ; and, having noticed the ingenuity and industry of William Hewson, he selected him for that office, and subsequently made him a partner in his lectures. This con- nexion subsisted until 1770, when a separation was occasioned by some disputes, and Cruikshank succeeded to the honourable situation. In 1767, Hunter became a Fellow of the Eoyal Society ; and in 1768, he received an appointment on which he conferred celebrity by the zeal with which he discharged it — the professorship of anatomy in the Royal Academy of Arts, which had been re- cently founded by George III. He adapted his anatomical knowledge to the objects of painting and sculpture with remarkable „tact ; and the origin- ality and justness of his observations in this entirely new career evinced the promptitude and versatility of his talents. On the death of Fothergill he was unanimously elected to preside over the Medical Society. In 1780 the Royal Medical Society of Paris created him one of their foreign associates ; and he soon afterwards obtained a similar distinc- tion from the Royal Academy of Sciences of that city. The Jnatomy of the Hwnan Gravid Uterus appeared in 1775 — a work distinguished alike by the splendor and the correctness of its deli- neations. Ten of the thirty-four plates which it contains had been completed so early as 1751 ; but the publication was retarded by the anxiety of the author to render his work as perfect as his oppor- tunities would permit. In the preface he candidly