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The whole of this collection has been niade by the present professor . There are also in this collection wax representations of the eye magnified , of the ear > and of the male and female nro-ans of reproduction .
The Anatomiqal Museum at Cambridge consists ^ of preparations of the human bodjr > Mid others of wax . The former were presented to the University , through the Agency of Ward Nicholas Boylston , Esq ., by John Nicholls , LL . D ., of London . They
were prepared by the celebrated Dr . Nicholls , who himself invented the corroded injections . Many of these are found at Cambridge in perfect preservation , and cannot be excelled in
beauty nor minuteness , especially those of the vessels of the lungs , of the heart , and of the urinary organs . In this collection , there are a great number of fine specimens of urinary calculi , all which are sawed to exhibit their
interior texture ; among them , are one which has a leaden bullet , and another which has a needle for its nucleus . The wax preparations were in part a donation from Hasket Derby , Esq *; the rest were made for the University by direction of its present Government .
In addition to this collection , the Professor of Anatomy has commenced the formation of a cabinet of comparative anatomy . This is small at present , but exhibits the skeletons of various quadrupeds , birds and reptiles , and some handsome injections of minute structure .
Massachusetts Medical College . The Medical Lectures of Harvard University were formerly g iven in Cambridge only , to the senior class and to medical students . In the year IS 10 , it was thought expedient that a Medical Institution should be
commenced in Boston , under the auspices ° r the University , for the express education of medical students . The object ot this new establishment was to allow a longer term for the medical lecture ^ and also to afford students the
opportunity which they had tiot before erijoyed , £ * attending surgical operations and nospital practice . A buildjliig ifi Boston was rented a&d fitted up with lfcctuterooms ty tfte profiteers , and' lectures co mmend on the dfafetfent branches
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of medical Science ; Frond iMs time the number of students Has regularly increased , and ft is n 6 vr inGre than dbuble the average nuiiibei * ^ ho for merly attended at Cambridge ^ The , . * _ . rife - * m- •* . - ^ g * . . m . ~ . . _ * . • . -
growihgstatfc of th&h Instigation , ( minted out the necessity of a suitable public buiJdinrg , to contain tiie lfeetarte-rooms , laboratory , museum , &c ., and in 1815 , the Corporation a ^ topfriatted twenty thousand dollars froiii tlfe grant then made them by the Commonwealth , for the erection of such an edifice ; The
building , which is to bear tii £ name of the Massachusetts Medical College , was immediately commenced : it is now very near to its completion , and will be in perfect readiness for the lectures of the ensuing season .
The Massachusetts Medical College is situated in Mason Street , near the Boston Common and Mall . The building is of brick , 88 feet in length , and 43 in its greatest breadth . Its figure is oblong , with a pediment in front , and an octagonal centre rising
above the roof , and also forming a three-sided projection in the rear of the building . This is surmounted by a dome , with a skylight and a ballustrade ^ giving an appearance of elegance to the neatness and fit proportions of the building .
The apartmettts on the floor are , a spacious Medical Lecture-room , of a square form , with ascending semi-eircular seats ; a large Chemical I ^ ectureroom in the centre , of an octagonal form , with ascending seats ; a Chemical
Laboratory , fitted up with furnaces and accommodations for the costly apparatus used in the lectures ; and a room to be occupied by the Massachusetts Medical Society . In the second
story is the Anatomical Theatre , the most extensive room , occupying the whole central part of the building , covered with the dome and skylight , with semi-circular seats which are
entered from above , and descend regularly toward the centre . A large and a small room for practical anatomy , together with another for the museum occupy the extremities of the same
story . The whole building is warmed by a si>e stove situated in the celjAl ^ calculated by the inventor * for tftuning • ¦ ^ «^"""• " ' ^^~^~~—~^~ - ~^*~ * Mr . Jacob Perkins .
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¥ Amount of Harvard University + in @ambridge 9 Massachusetts . £ @ 7
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1820, page 507, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2492/page/7/
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