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and trained by his father from very early youth to 

 scientific pursuits, they became habitual, and were 

 the sole occupation of a very long life, fruitful in 

 important discoveries, forming the basis of modern 

 chemistry. That his mind remained unaltered and 

 unimpaired to the very last, his paper in the second 

 part of the Transactions for 1809 is a sufficient 

 proof. "Ingenitas didicisse fideliter artes" ought to 

 improve the whole man, the heart as well as head. 

 It is to be regretted that science and charity were 

 wholly forgotten in the distribution of his property. 

 He might well have divided 100,000/. between them, 

 which I believe would not have been an eighth part 

 of his immense possessions. 



Yours most sincerely, 



John Walker. 



From William Smith, Esq. 



My dear Sir, Parndon, Nov. 20, 1810. 



I am really sorry I was not of your party in the 

 so well described library*, with its so well appre- 

 ciating visitants ; but with all due and humble sub- 

 mission, I should have made, I will not say a better, 

 but a more every-hour companion for Lord Spencer 

 than yourself; for when tired, if ever, of the library, 

 I could have gone with him to the field, — from 

 taking down books, to knocking down pheasants, 

 — which I fear you could not. 



* Mr. Coke's, at Holkham. 



