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190 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT To post in the Museum Catalogue succinct description of each new preparation with reference in case of speci- mens brought from the Hospital to the particulars in the Case-book or Postmortem-book New preparations or those remounted to be placed on the table at each meeting of the Medical Board together with record of work done since the previous meeting All Catalogues connected with the duties of the office to be kept in the Museum in the custody of the Curator and to be readily accessible The Curator is elected annually the holder of the appointment being re-eligible if recommended for re-election by the Medical Board The Curator is not allowed to hold any other office in the College or Hospital General Information The Museums consist of Collections of objects illustrative of every department of Anatomy Human and Comparative Healthy and Morbid of Materia Medica Botany Chemistry Toxicology Mineralogy Geology and other branches of Natural History also of Collections of Diagrams amounting to upwards of 000 in number for illustrating the Lectures on these various subjects The Collection of Human Anatomy comprises large number of wet preparations models and casts presented by the late Dr Hooper and Green Esq and has been considerably enriched by additions from the several Professors friends and pupils 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 iusects and other of the lower tribes