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A lecture at the Hunterian anatomy school, Great Windmill Street, London. Watercolour by R.B. Schnebbelie, 1839.

William Hunter (1718-1783) in his museum in Windmill Street on the day of resurrection, surrounded by skeletons and bodies, some of whom are searching for their missing parts. Engraving, 1782.

Mr. Brookes's celebrated museum and theatre of anatomy : Mr. George Robins has the pleasure to announce to the medical world, that he has been honoured by the instructions of Joshua Brookes ... to sell by auction, on Thursday, the 3rd of July, and the 20 following days (Sunday and Monday always excepted) at the Theatre of Anatomy, in Blenheim-Street, London, the anatomical and zoological museum of theis learned anatomist / George Robins.

The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the Hunterian Museum. Coloured engraving by E. Radclyffe after T. H. Shepherd.

William Hunter's house, and the Windmill Street School of Medicine: seen from the south. Watercolour painting by G.F.B.

Leiden, the Netherlands: the University, Anatomy theatre, Botanic garden, Lakenhal, city and two portraits of Counts. Line engraving.

Anatomy Theatre, Leiden, the Netherlands. Line engraving.

Catalogue of anatomical objects : constituting the main part of the museum of Professor Cleland, handed over by agreement for the use of the Anatomical Department to the University of Glasgow.

Description of the anatomical museum of the school of Great Windmill Street.

Die Hallesche Anatomie und ihre Sammlungen : ein Instituts- und Sammlungsführer / Rüdiger Schultka ; Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Medizinische Fakultät, Institut für Anatomie und Zellbiologie.

Catalogue of anatomical preparations in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow ... / [compiled by] G. Fordyce, David Pitcairn, W. Combe.

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Catalogue of anatomical objects : constituting the main part of the museum of Professor Cleland, handed over by agreement for the use of the Anatomical Department to the University of Glasgow.

Description of the anatomical museum of the school of Great Windmill Street.

William Hunter (1718-1783) in his museum in Windmill Street on the day of resurrection, surrounded by skeletons and bodies, some of whom are searching for their missing parts. Engraving, 1782.

Die Hallesche Anatomie und ihre Sammlungen : ein Instituts- und Sammlungsführer / Rüdiger Schultka ; Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Medizinische Fakultät, Institut für Anatomie und Zellbiologie.

Catalogue of anatomical preparations in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow ... / [compiled by] G. Fordyce, David Pitcairn, W. Combe.