The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-15 00:00:00

Mr. BROOKES's CELEBRATED MUSEUM

The extraordinary sensation this sale has created,
throughout, not only in the Three Kingdoms, but in
France, Germany, Holland, &c., naturally inclined us
to take advantage of the public view ;and we feel very
great gratification in adding our testimony to the al-
most countless thousands who have emigrated there,
in expressing the high admiration with which we

viewed this splendid Exhibition, mixed up with con-
siderable regret, that circumstances, (no matter
what,) should have made it necessary they should
be separated. The sale commenced on Monday,
and the crowd that had assembled was beyond even
our sanguine expectation, although it was prudently
determined not to admit any one without a cata-
logue. Mr. George Robins has the • conduct of the
sale, and precisely at one o'clock he commenced his
exordium ; and of which the following is a very
short outline. He proceeded thus :
Gentlemen, it is to my good fortune and the par-
tial opinion of the great and talented Anatomist,
whose property is about to be submitted to your li-
beral consideration, and not to any skill or pre-
tentious of my own that you see me at this honour-
able post—it would be idle, and partake too much of
affectation, were I to say I am not a little proud of
the preference, and equally delighted at being the
humble instrument of distributing this splendid mo-
nument of the imperishable fame of `Mr. Brookes. I
I must, however, be permitted to remark, that it has
been with equal pain I have witnessed the necessity
for this sale, and with very different feelings, that I
at length learnt the Colleges and Institutions, both
in this and other countries, have voluntarily sacri-
ficed the noble opportunity of handing down to pos-
terity (as a whole) an exhibition which it had
been truly said, " was the finest that ever was pre-
sented to the attention, and for the admiration,
of the medical world—one which, to the latest
period, will reflect immortal honour on the zealous
and highly-gifted individual, who, at an expense
of 30,000/., and a sacrifice of thirty years of
his life, has accomplished this Herculean task." He

felt that he could hardly trust himself in expressing
his feelings on this point ; he left it to those who
were at the head of the public bodies, to whom he
had alluded, to reconcile it to- themselves, the sad
necessity of seeing him in that place to-day; and he
had the satisfaction to know, that this opinion was
in unison with the greater portion, not only of his
present respectable auditory, but of thousanis who
had been led to the public view; during the last
week.—(Loud applause.) He then took a view of
the difficulty in which he had been placed,
kind partiality of this highly-talented man. by the
The Catalogue which (as it regarded twelve
days) was now before them, was in unison with the
exhibition, a demonstrative proof of
.the learning
and vast research which was so conspicuOus
throughout every page. His highly-gifted em-
ployer, however, seemed to have forgot the
perilous situation in which so much learning had
placed him. It required no common tact to be con-
versant with the meaning of very many hundred
sentences in this clever catalogue; for himself,
he must own (although with some regret) that his
education, although it had arrived at Latin and
French, did not extend itself to Greek. The march
of intellect had lately made such rapid strides, that
a man must now be accounted almost unfit for the
situation he has the honour to fill; but his solace
would be found in the recollection that,inthe olden

times and his younger days, it was not thought an
indispensable appendage to the profession which it
has been his good fortune to engage • in; he had,
however, a little consolation still left—the learned
man whose cause he was so faintly advocating, had
in the kindest manner volunteered to be at his
elbow, by which his auditory would have very fre-
quently the opportunity of not only having his mis-
apprehension corrected,
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learnt
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ex-
position of all that was rare and estimable, as could
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He had only one more observa•
•
tion to make, and it was to intreat of them to be-
lieve, that however great the sacrifice might be, he
(Mr. Brookes) had resolved that there should not be
a protecting • price far any one lot throughout the
sale; he relied on the good feeling of a profession
remarkable at all times for liberality and kind feeling,
and he was quite sure, in this case, he had not over-
rated
their intention. The Sale then commenced,
and with much spirit—the first Lot was bought by'
the College of Surgeons; who are likely to be large
purchasers; and there are Agents from Berlin,
Amsterdam, Vienna, Paris, Edinburgh, Glasgow,
&c. &c., from which we augur favourably of the re-
sult. Mr. Robins must have been not a little grati-
fied by the cheering applause at the termination
of his speech.. As this' Sale will be, in times to
come, accounted a part of History, we shall, occa-
sionally, give an outline of the Sale's proceeds, the
interest of which has exceeded any thing we can
call to our recollection. • •

Mr. GEORGE ROBINS 's
Grand Sale, an-
nounced for the inst., is unavoidably postponed to the
29th inst.