scholarly journals The Hunterian Oration on John Hunter and his Museum: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, February 14th, 1911

BMJ ◽  
1911 ◽  
Vol 1 (2616) ◽  
pp. 341-347
Author(s):  
E. Owen
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
John Hunter

The fate of the bird specimens from Cook's voyages possessed by Sir Joseph Banks

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Medway
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
British Museum ◽  
John Hunter ◽  
The World ◽  
Extensive Collection

Joseph Banks possessed the greater part of the zoological specimens collected on James Cook's three voyages round the world (1768–1780). In early 1792, Banks divided his zoological collection between John Hunter and the British Museum. It is probable that those donations together comprised most of the zoological specimens then in the possession of Banks, including such bird specimens as remained of those that had been collected by himself and Daniel Solander on Cook's first voyage, and those that had been presented to him from Cook's second and third voyages. The bird specimens included in the Banks donations of 1792 became part of a series of transactions during the succeeding 53 years which involved the British Museum, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and William Bullock. It is a great pity that, of the extensive collection of bird specimens from Cook's voyages once possessed by Banks, only two are known with any certainty to survive.

John Hunter's Directions for preserving animals

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanislav Strekopytov
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Unpublished Manuscript ◽  
Bibliographic Analysis ◽  
Linnean Society ◽  
John Hunter ◽  
Richard Owen

Directions for preserving animals, an undated anonymous pamphlet, privately published by the famous anatomist John Hunter (1728–1793), has not been a subject of a dedicated study so far in spite of its importance as a set of instructions influencing zoological collecting throughout the nineteenth century. A donation entry in the 1788 edition of Regulations and laws of the Lyceum Medicum Londinense allowed assigning 1788 as the most probable publication year of Hunter's pamphlet. The bibliographic analysis of Hunter's private press publications shows that the pamphlet was likely to have been produced by the same press. The pamphlet was reprinted in an amended form in 1809, and further amendments were done for the 1826 and 1835 editions published by the Royal College of Surgeons in London. In spite of Richard Owen (1804–1892) claiming a (co-)authorship of the 1835 edition, there is no evidence that his role exceeded minor editorial corrections. Since Owen made a reference in his correspondence to Hunter's manuscript instructions that he supposedly used in the preparation of the 1835 edition, an attempt was made to trace published and unpublished manuscript instructions for zoological collecting that could be attributed to Hunter. Manuscripts of the Society for Promoting Natural History preserved at the Linnean Society of London showed involvement of John Hunter and Everard Home (1756–1832) in the preparation of a hitherto undescribed comprehensive set of instructions for natural history collectors that was planned to be published by the Society.

scholarly journals John Hunter's post-mortem examination of George Grenville (1712–1770)

2008 ◽  
Vol 90 (10) ◽  
pp. 338-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Spigelman ◽  
L Berger ◽  
R Pinhasi ◽  
HD Donoghue ◽  
S Chaplin
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Incidental Findings ◽  
Comparative Anatomy ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Post Mortem Examination ◽  
Anatomical Teaching ◽  
John Hunter

The Hunterian Museum at The Royal College of Surgeons of England contains approximately 3,500 specimens of human and comparative anatomy and pathology collected by the surgeon, John Hunter (1728–1793). A significant part of the collection comprises pathological specimens. These include specimens removed during surgery or as incidental findings from anonymous bodies being dissected during anatomical teaching. However, the majority comes from the bodies of patients on which Hunter performed post-mortem examinations. These include patients at St George's Hospital, where Hunter worked as a surgeon from 1768 until his death. A surprising number also come from the bodies of private patients. These were presumably removed with consent, at autopsies that would have taken place in the patient's own home and often with the patient's family or friends present.

scholarly journals XVI. On the placentation of the Apes, with a comparison of the structure of their placenta with that of the human female

1878 ◽  
Vol 169 ◽  
pp. 523-562 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Human Placenta ◽  
Cellular Structure ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Human Female ◽  
Umbilical Vessels ◽  
Uterine Arteries ◽  
John Hunter ◽  
Different Parts

The placenta in the Quadrumana has from time to time engaged the attention of anatomists. John Hunter seems to have been the first to describe and figure the placenta of monkey, which had been shed in the ordinary course of parturition, after the birth of a single fœtus. The placenta was divided into two oblong contiguous lobes, and ach lobe was made up of smaller lobes closely united together. Fissures were seen n the uterine surface of the placenta, in which were situated veins or sinuses that eceived the blood laterally from the lobes, and that passed through the decidua to ter the substance of the uterus. The substance of the placenta seemed to be cellular” as in the human subject: an arrangement which allowed a communication be kept up between different parts of each lobe, as well as between different lobes. unter recognised the chorion and amnion. The decidua was thicker than in the uman subject. The allantois was absent. Hunter does not give the generic name this monkey, but Professor Owen calls it Macacus rhesus , and in the “Catalogue of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons” he points out that the filamentary fœtal villi include the capillary loops of the umbilical vessels; but instead of lying free in the alveolar cavities of the maternal placenta, they are connected or entangled with the fine cellular structure which receives the blood from the uterine arteries; the uterine veins have stronger and more definite coats than in the human placenta.

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