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BAILLIE, 237 away with him nothing but loose and inaccurate information. At the end of another year, his uncle died, and bequeathed to him the use of the museum (which is now an ornament to the University of Glasgow), his theatre and house in Windmill- street, and also a small family estate in Scotland. The last of these legacies Bailhe nobly yielded to his uncle, John Hunter, from a consideration that he was the natural heir. William Hunter also left him about one hundred pounds a year ; and devoted the remainder of his fortune to the sup- port of his museum, to the erection of a building for its reception at Glasgow, and to an annuity to two surviving sisters. The example and precepts of so distinguished a relative as William Hunter, afforded advantages such as few students have possessed. Baillie observes of him, in a manuscript lecture, that no one ever possessed more enthusiasm for the art, more persevering industry, more acuteness of investigation, more perspicuity of expression, nor, indeed, a greater share of natural eloquence. The clearness and simplicity, which rendered the lessons of William Hunter so instructive and so captivating, were visible, in nearly an equal de- gree, in the lectures which Baillie continued, during many years, to deliver in the same school. He seized every occasion of examining diseased appearances after death, and preserved minute notes of his observations ; his zeal in one instance endangered his life, from a slight wound received on his hand, by a knife, while engaged in the dis- section of a putrid body. He gradually accumu- lated a well-selected collection of specimens of