VI... Additional Communications respecting the Blind and Deaf 
Boy, Jamzs Mircuexrt. By Joun Gorvon, M. D. F. B.S. 
Epin. 
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(Read Nov. 20. 1815. ) 
55 HE following circumstances respecting the Blind and Deaf 
& Boy, James Mircuetr, have come to my knowledge since 
the publication of Professor Srrwart’s Memoir; and I doubt 
not but the Society will think them worthy of being recorded. 
They are derived from the most accurate and authentic of al] 
sources, the boy’s sister, Miss Mircuett. 
_In the month of April 1814, Mr Parker, an English gen- 
‘tleman, (distinguished, as I have since learned, for his active 
benevolence,) did me the honour to wait upon me, to commu- 
nicate a plan for the instruction of young Mircuetx, which had 
some time before occurred to him, and which he was very de- 
sirous should be put to the test of experiment. This method 
seemed in no respect inconsistent with those principles which 
in all circumstances appear to regulate the acquisition of lan- 
guage; and IJ therefore expressed my willingness, to promote, 
by every means in my power, the object which Mr Parker 
had in view. 
Vou. VIII. P. I. R Mr 
