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completed. Very exquisite drawings were made in water
colors by a foreign artist, and from typical and recent speci-
mens ; these were then lithographed, and the copies that are
shown in the Museum were colored by the same artist, after
the originals. A collection of enlarged drawings in water
colors, by the same artist, suitable for the lecture-room, and
illustrative of surgical anatomy and pathology, may also be
alluded to, though independent of the Museum. In this col-
lection there are four hundred and twenty -six plates, and
altogether nine hundred and sixty-seven figures ; many of the
drawings being from recent specimens, and showing the micro-
scopic as well as the gross appearances. Some of the other
departments are, also, illustrated more or less fully. Prof.
R. M. Hodges has always shown a most active interest in the
Museum since he was connected with the College as a student,
and the large practice in which he has been engaged of late
years has enabled him to secure for it very many specimens,
and some of them of the greatest interest. His anatomical
preparations, also, are very fine, and could hardly be surpassed
for the freedom and beauty of the dissections. The most valu-
able specimen that has ever been added to the Museum, and
probably ever will be, was given two years ago by Dr. John M.
Harlow, of Woburn. It was the skull of the man through
whose head a large iron bar passed, and who essentially recov-
ered from the accident. For the professional zeal and the
energy that Dr. H. showed, in getting possession of this re-
markable specimen, he deserves the warmest thanks of the
profession, and still more, from the College, for his donation.
Unfortunately, and notwithstanding the evidence that Dr. H.
has furnished, the case seems, generally, to those who have not
seen the skull, too much for human belief.
The whole number of specimens now in the Museum amounts
to three thousand six hundred and eighty-nine. The last specimen
is numbered 3681 ; but thirteen were accidentally omitted, and
afterwards added as the volume was being printed ; and five
were repeated. Of these, one thousand one hundred and six-
teen specimens were given by Dr. Warren, including three
hundred and thirteen phrenological casts ; and one hundred
and twenty-three specimens were paid for from the Museum
Fund. The number of specimens preserved in spirit is nine
