Mammalia / by the Editor.

  • Jardine, William, 1800-1874.
Date:
1836
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Credit: Mammalia / by the Editor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a treatise entitled, Observations on certain parts of the Animal Economy; but these notices were taken from the description prepared by Dr Smith in 1754. In 1755 or 1756, Mr Hunter made preparations and drawings of the growth of the chick, in the pro- cess of incubation. His extensive series of experi- ments and observations connected with this subject have never, so far as we know, been permitted to see the light; but we find him making some use of them in illustration of another subject, to which he ap- plied all the energies of his mind ; and they may be seen noticed in his well known work On the Blood, &c. So eagerly did Mr Hunter at this time attach himself to the study of comparative anatomy, that he left no means unemployed to obtain possession of the rarer kinds of animals, with the view of exa- mining into their peculiarities. For this end, he ap- plied to those who had the charge of the Royal Me- nagerie at the Tower, for the bodies of the animals that died there; and he made similar applications to all those who made a business of collecting and ex- hibiting wild beasts to the public. He also pur- chased any of tile rarer animals which came in his way; and these, with such others as were presented to him by his friends, he entrusted to the showmen, to keep till they died, the more to encourage them to assist him in his labours. After twelve years had been spent in the manner