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Hunterian Museum, bicentenary.(Report from Europe)(Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery)
Dr. William Hunter, a pioneering physician and teacher, was born in East Kilbride, south of Glasgow, in 1718. Originally destined for a career in the church, he became a successful and popular doctor with a speciality in obstetrics. In 1762, having moved to London after studying abroad, he became the physician to Queen Charlotte, consort of George III, and he subsequently supervised the delivery of her fifteen children. In addition, he taught anatomy and surgery at a school he established in central London.
Hunter was also an insatiable and eclectic collector whose wide range of interests included ancient civilizations, art, foreign cultures, and the natural sciences. Among his many friends he counted the artist Allan Ramsay, who painted his portrait (illustrated here), and Captain James Cook, whose artifacts he eventually acquired sometime after the explorer's voyage to the South Pacific.
Hunter determined that his home city should benefit from his fortune. He wrote to a friend in 1765, "I have a great inclination to do something considerable at Glasgow." This turned out to be typical British understatement, for on his death he left his entire collection to the University of Glasgow, along with the funds to create a suitable museum. Opened in 1807, the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery celebrates its bicentenary this year. After being ...
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- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Kramer, Miriam July 1, 2008 700+ words
...popular paintings, Lady Taking Tea, from the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow. In addition, the...Christoph Vogtherr of the Wallace Collection and Anne Dulau of the Hunterian Museum, where it may be seen from September 24 to...
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- Dictionary definition from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography January 1, 2008 700+ words
...He maintained and developed the Hunterian Museum for fifty years and perpetuated Hunter...and became administrator of the Hunterian Museum, as the collections were known...s lifework and memorial was the Hunterian Museum. He published a few papers, mainly...
- Modern apprentices: Archie coins it in; How a keen interest in history led one...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) October 2, 2003 700+ words
...Henderson is an apprentice at the Hunterian Museum within Glasgow University and deals...aware of the unique opportunity at the Hunterian Museum. He was keen on history at school...Anne Coupar, Curator of Coins at the Hunterian Museum and Archie's supervisor, said...
- Monster smash.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) March 10, 2001 700+ words
...Dinosaurs at Glasgow University's Hunterian Museum How real is the exhibition? Very...Gideon Mantell donated his finds to the Hunterian Museum. How long did it take you to get...With Dinosaurs, The Kelvin Gallery, Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, University...
- Round and about: May 2006.(FRONTLINE)
- Magazine article from: History Today May 1, 2006 700+ words
...all museums/properties. To book please contact: The Hunterian Museum on 020 7869 6560 email: museums@rcseng.ac.uk Follow...curator-led tour, around Lincoln's Inn Fields to the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, followed by a stroll...
- BEACH BIGFOOT; Amazing dinosaur fossil find.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) August 28, 2002 700+ words
...are now being unearthed. A team of dino experts from the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow, have descended on the isle...kept at Staffin museum, and copies will be sent to the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow and the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh...
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- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London April 5, 1995 700+ words
...Edinburgh University; Lawrence John Forbes Keppie, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University; James Kirk, Glasgow University...Digital Equipment Ltd, Irvine; Malcolm Donald McLeod, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow University; Alan Swain McNeilly...
- MAMMOTH FIND; How did an ancient elephant's skull end up in park?(News)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) May 23, 2000 700+ words
...elephant or even a mammoth. "We have also contacted the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow and we are hopeful that once their experts have...It is a privilege to have seen it." Experts from the Hunterian Museum are now working on carbon dating the skull to discover...