Volume 1

Descriptive catalogue of the preparations in the museum of St. Thomas's Hospital.

Date:
1847-59
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the preparations in the museum of St. Thomas's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Professor of Comparative Anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons, in the years 1814 and 1815. The Collection, consisting of sjDecimens of Healthy, Patholo- gical and Comparative Anatomy, of which the Pathological form the most considerable and valuable portion, has been accumu- lating till the present time, and is still receiving additions. In 1827, two years after the establishment of a complete Medical School at St. Thomas's Hospital, the Museum, which had become the sole property of Mr. Gkeen, was purchased by the Governors. The Microscopical Subjects were purchased by the Governors in 1842, and large additions have been made to them by Mr. Rainey, the present Demonstrator of Anatomy. In the course of last summer also, a large collection of Wax Models has been added to the Collection by the Governors. In Autumn, 1846, the Teachers of the School proposed that a Committee should be formed, to consist of Dr. Barkee. Mr. John F. South. Dr. Leeson. Mr. Grainger. Dr. Bennett. Mr. Le Gros Clark. Mr. Green. Mr. James Dixon. for the purpose of making a Descriptive Catalogue of the Museum, and that Mr. William Adams the Curator, and Mr. Rainey the Demonstrator of Anatomy in the School, should give their assistance to the same object. This proposal was laid before the Governors, and their assent thereto bavins: been given, the Museum Committee, thus sanctioned, decided that certain portions of the Collection should be assigned to and described by each member, and that such several parts of the Catalogue should be subscribed by the person who furnished it; and that the general supervision of the printing of the Cata- logue should be entrusted to Mr. John F. South.