In regard to the special purposes served by this museum, it is mentioned in the same address that it is maintained by the College of Surgeons “for the benefit not only of its own members, but for that of the profession at large, and indeed of all who take any interest in biological science, whether the young student preparing for his examination, or the advanced worker who has here found materials for many an important contribution by which the boundaries of knowledge have been materially enlarged. To all such it is freely open without fee or charge. Even the written or personal introduction of members, still nominally required, is never asked for on the four open days from any intelligent or interested visitor; and on the one day of the week on which it is closed for cleaning, facilities are always given to those who are desirous of making special studies, and to the increasing number of lady students, whether artistic, scholastic, or medical. Artists continually resort to the museum to find opportunities of studying anatomy of man and animals, which no other place in London affords; and of late years it has been the means of a still wider diffusion of knowledge, by the visits which have been organised on summer Saturday afternoons by various associations of artizans, to whom a popular demonstration of its contents is usually given by the Conservator.” Elsewhere in the same address we find the following passage in connection with the teaching functions of this body:— “The various professorships and lectureships that are attached to the College have grown up chiefly in consequence of one of the conditions under which the Hunterian Collection was entrusted to it by Government—that a course of no less than twenty-four lectures shall be delivered annually by some member of the College upon Comparative Anatomy and other subjects, illustrated by the preparations.” For some years previously to Professor Quekett’s death the offices of Conservator of the Museum of the College and of Hunterian Professor of Anatomy had been disassociated; the occupant of the professorial chair at the date in question being the late Professor T. H. Huxley, while, as already mentioned, Quekett held the Conservatorship. At an earlier date the two offices had, however, been held conjointly; Owen having fulfilled the duties of both for a period of no less than twenty-five years. It may be added that, from the varied nature of the collections under his charge, the Conservator is expected to have a knowledge not only of comparative anatomy and zoology, but likewise of palæontology, physiology, surgery, and pathology.