Page:The Hunterian Oration, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons ... February 14, 1817 (IA b22009358).pdf/39

31 Anniversaries from those gentlemen upon whom the pleasing duty shall devolve, it is at present only intended to mention, at any length, in this the second zva of our Art, one anatomist and one surgeon, William Hunter, and Perceval Pott.

The former of those great characters was a man of learning, of science, and of taste ; who devoted a long life to the cultivation of Anatomy, and a large proportion of the fortune derived from his professional labours, to the formation of an extensive Museum. ~His great and valuable Collection, now possessed by the University of Glasgow, consists, not only of the various parts of the human body, represented in a sound and natural state, and also in the endlessly diversified forms which disease produces ; but contains likewise a very - �