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fuch induftry, and under the conduct of able teachers, (whom, 

 bv the way* he always mentioned with the greater!: refpeet,) 

 our philofophical readers will eafily conceive. In fact, when 

 the doctor left that univeriity, he might be faid to have been 

 accomplifhed in all the eflential parts of medical erudition, 

 and thoroughly initiated in every collateral branch of know- 

 ledge. He had made himfelf well acquainted with the theory 

 of the celebrated Brown; and the ability with which he fup- 

 ported that theory is well known to the readers of his Lecture 

 on Health, and will be (till more apparent when his Lectures 

 on Zoonomia, of which he left a correct copy, come to be 

 laid before the public. He gave a decided preference to the 

 modern chemiftry, which he treated with all that perfpicuity 

 and precifion, which might be expected from a teacher who 

 had been early habituated to the clofe and accurate reafoning 

 which diftinguifties the mathematical fciences. We have 

 beard him feveral times fay that; in point of evidence, che- 

 miftry, in its prefent Hate of improvement, is not inferior 

 to the Newtonian philofophy : and although we might not 

 be prepared to give our unqualified aflent to this opinion ; yet 

 we cannot but acknowledge that fuch a declaration, from fo 

 able a judge, is highly creditable to the fcience. x\s an 

 experimenter, Dr. Garnett was at once dexterous and cau- 

 tious ; fo cautious, indeed, that we never knew or heard of 

 any material accident happening at his lectures. His audi- 

 ence attended him with a fenfe of perfect fecurity, and his 

 apparatus fuffered little or no damage in his hands. Many 

 of the articles were improved by the alterations he had occa- 

 fion to make in them ; and, upon the whole, his apparatus, 

 as it now ftands, is extremely valuable. We apprehend it will 

 be difpofed of by private file, which, however judicioufly 

 conducted, cannot be expe£tcd to return any thing like its 

 original coft. This is the more to be lamented, as upon 

 that apparatus, the lecture- room which he lately built, and 

 the many contingent expenfes attending a new eftablim- 

 ment, the doctor had expended fo much money, as to have 

 left little or no provifion for his orphan children. A fub- 

 fcription, we underhand, is to be opened in their behalf, 

 which, we hope, will place them in a iltuation in fome de- 

 gree fuitable to the profpects they might reafonably have en- 

 tertained, if their father had lived to reap the fruits of his 

 labours. 



