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Speyrer, but now to the brewer Georg Müller. It bears the strange inscription: "Bierbrauerei zum neuen Essighaus." There had been before vinegar works in that house.

As Mr. Cooke was not permitted to make here, in the cleanly kept apartments, anatomical dissections, he hired a room in the same street, nearly opposite, in the house of the gardener Schwartz, No. 5, now belonging to his grandson, the turner Ferdinand Koch. Here he was, during the winter, so active, that at the end of it he was able to send off four cases full of models in wax to his father at Durham.

I n the present Anatomical Museum at Heidelberg, finished in 1848, I have, under Nos. 382, 383, and 628, found three wax models, made by Mr. Cooke during the winter mentioned. The one under No. 628 is marked : W. F. C., Dunelm.

I n the beginning of March 1836, Mr. Cooke heard accidentally from John William Eizzo Hoppner, with whom he had formed an intimate acquaintance, because his relations lived in the Canton Berne, where Mr. Cooke had been with his own parents, that the professor of natural philosophy had an apparatus with which he could signa-