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any large city on the face of the earth.'' His medical ta- 

 lents may well be believed not to have been small, when it is 

 told, that he was the rival in practice, and by no means an 

 unsuccessful one, of the illustrious Cullen, of the Monros, 

 and of Gregory. In private life, Dr. Duncan was eminently 

 distinguished for his sociality, and the desire to benefit all 

 mankind. He was a member of several social clubs. His 

 favourite amusement was gardening. He possessed a garden 

 in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, which he cultivated en- 

 tirely with his own hands, and on the door of which was 

 placed, in conspicuous letters, * hinc salus.' He was par- 

 ticularly kind to the students attending his lectures, and 

 gave a tea-drinking every Sunday evening to about a dozen 

 of them, by rotation, who assembled at six o'clock and went 

 away at eight. When old, he used sometimes to forget the 

 lapse of time, and in his lectures, frequently spoke about the 

 late Mr. Haller, who lived a century before. To the last 

 year of his life he never omitted going up, on the morning of 

 the 1st of May, to wash his face in the dew of the summit of 

 a mountain near Edinburgh, called Arthur's Seat. lie had 

 the merit of being the father of the present Dr. Duncan, the 

 celebrated author of the Edinburgh Dispensatory, and pro- 

 fessor of materia medica. Dr. Duncan's funeral was pro- 

 perly made a public one, at which the professors, magis- 

 trates, and medical bodies of Edinburgh attended, to testify 

 their sorrow and respect. 



Sir Uvedale Price. His portrait was taken by Sir Tho- 

 mas Lawrence, and is now at Foxley.* The Hereford Jour- 



* Foxley, this far-famed seat of dignified and benevolent retirement, has 

 on many occasions become interesting. I will merely mention one. It 

 gave a peaceful asylum to Benjamin Stillingileet, when his mind was de- 

 pressed by disappointment. The then owner, Robert Price, Esq. and his 

 mild and amiable lady, both kindly pressed him to become an inmate of 

 their domestic retreat, that his health might be restored, and his mind 



