Calendar: 1854-1855 Page 129

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 127 annual instalments and all Subscribers of Three Guineas per annum are Governors for life Copies of the Act of Parliament may be obtained from Cunningham Esq King's College London Section II museums Registrar of Anatomical Museum-George Johnson Esq The Museums are under the general superintendence of he Dean of the Medical Department They consist of Collec- tions of objects illustrative of every department of Anatomy Human and Comparative Healthy and Morbid of Materia Medica Botany Chemistry Mineralogy Geology and other branches of Natural History also of Collections of Diagrams υ amounting to upwards of 000 in number for illustrating the Lectures on these various subjets The Collection 01 Human Anatomy comprises large 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 Museum of Comparative Anatomy contains large collection of Osteological specimens and skeletons presented by the Messrs Bellamy of Plymouth Among the wet prepa- rations are many highly interesting dissections displaying 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 verv com- plete large assortment of drugs having been presented by the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries and by the late Sir II Halford Bart The Collections of Mineralogy and Geology are extensive and contain examples of the different formations with selection of the most characteristic fossils belonging to each valuable collection of Fossils consisting chiefly of bones of Mammalia and lteptilia from Perim Island in the Gulf of