A general account of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow : including historical and scientific notices of the various objects of art, literature, natural history, anatomical preparations, antiquities, &c. in that celebrated collection / by J. Laskey.

  • Laskey, J. C. (John Coombe)
Date:
1813
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Credit: A general account of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow : including historical and scientific notices of the various objects of art, literature, natural history, anatomical preparations, antiquities, &c. in that celebrated collection / by J. Laskey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Ji-N presenting to the Public this account of the Hunterian Mu- seum, the Author is aware that an apology may be required for the Inaccuracies, with whicli, notwithstanding all the attention he has been able to bestow upon it, the volume may be charged; and he lias only to plead for indulgence, that during its pro- gress through the press, his professional duties had called him from Glasgow, and prevented his personal reference to the ob- jects themselves, while their description wps under his revision. It has, perhaps, also been detrimental to the work, that the distance of the Author rendered it impossible for him to avail himself of the literary and scientific aid of friends on the spot, whose encouragement at first led him to extend memoranda, originally taken for his own gratification, into a regular and di- gested account of the Museum; and in compliance with whose suggestions it has been his aim, not merely to afford a verbal catalogue for the assistance of the visitor, but to give such an analysis and detailed account of the establishment, as shall be sufficiently intelligible and interesting, in itself, to the public at large. The Author is desirous of acknowledging to Dr. Couper the- Superintendant, and to th6 Trustees of the Museum, his obli- gations for the ready access afforded him, and for the polite at- tention with which his enquiries have been furthered. He feels Iiimself peculiarly called upon to notice the beneficial assist- ance he derived from Dr. M'Dougall in the Anatomical De- partment; frojn Thomas Hopkirk, Esq. Younger of Dalbeth, for the unreserved use of his valuable library of Works on Natur- al History and Science; and from Mr. Smith, Youngest, Book- seller, for the aid afforded him in pointing out many rarities in the Bibliographical Department, for which his habits and acquaintance with the subject so peculiarly q^ualify him.. Dumbarton Castle, 7 July 1st, 1813. y