Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Physiological Series of Comparative Anatomy contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Abstract

OF the catalogues of the Royal College of Surgeons, rendered famous by the labours of Hunter, Owen and Flower, but one in osteology, by Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, and one in teratology, by Mr. B. Thompson Lowne, have appeared during the present conservator's term of office. Prof. Charles Stewart, unlike his predecessor in this office, who con centrated his attention upon one special department, has since his appointment greatly developed all sides of the collection, and with the aid of his competent assistants has added year by year specimens of surpassing value and interest, which have become the admiration of all beholders. The period of his conservatorship has been one of unparalleled activity in all branches of zoology, and in the labour of keeping pace with this he has not been found wanting, as, for example, when, on the discovery of the calcified teeth of the Monotreme, he produced from his rich store of material the famous specimen which has since adorned his shelves, and shows more than all others yet described. With this museum, as with others in our own land, the Englishmen's colonising instinct has come forcibly into play, in the accumulation of objects, not merely of local interest, such as are generally to be found in the museums of other countries, but general and universal, wherefore the present catalogue is of necessity based upon a matchless material.

Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Physiological Series of Comparative Anatomy contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Vol. i. Second edition. Pp. xlix + 160. (London: Taylor and Francis, 1900.)