Calendar: 1848-1849 Page 115

medical department Ill Section VI museums Curator William Thomson Esq The Museums consist of Collections of objects illustrative of every department of Anatomy Human and Comparative Healthy and Morbid of Materia Medica Chemistry Mine- ralbgy Geology Botany and other branches of Natural History also of Collections of Diagrams for illustrating the Lectures on these various subjects amounting to upwards of in number The Collection of Human Anatomy comprises consider- able number of wet preparations models and casts presented by the late Dr Hooper and II Green Esq and has been considerably enriched by additions from the several Professors of the College The Collections of Comparative Anatomy include several excellent skeletons of which the most remarkable are young Elephant and two Indian Deer of different kinds Among the wet preparations are many highly interesting dissections elucidating the minute anatomy of insects and other of the lower tribes as well as preparations of the various organs of the higher animals The Materia Medica and Chemical Collections are very com- plete large assortment of drugs having been presented by the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries and by the late Sir Halford Bart The Collections of Mineralogy and Geology are extensive and contain examples of the different formations including selection of the most characteristic fossils belonging to each The Botanical Collections are especially rich and among them will be found Bottler's Indian Herbarium which has been considerably enlarged by additions from Dr Koyle and Dr Wallich To these has recently been added valuable collection of Fossils consisting chiefly of bones of Mammalia and Reptilia from Perim Island in the Gulf of Cambay pre- sented by Albermarle Bettington Esq of the Bombay Civil