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for lessons in oil-painting and lithography from Mr 

 Waterhouse Hawkins. Subsequently the sale of his 

 paintings enabled him to purchase materials and ap- 

 paratus for experiments. 



The economies which he practised during those 

 college days, in order to provide himself with money 

 for the purchase of chemical materials, were carried to 

 excess, and involved no little self-denial. An ample 

 allowance was given to him for dinner in town, but, 

 conscious of his parents' liberality, he never confessed 

 to the family that most frequently dinner consisted 

 of a bun or a roll, or occasionally a sausage - roll. 

 " The Lawn" at South Lambeth was four miles distant 

 from University College, so that daily he had an eight 

 miles' walk, which was lengthened by his making a 

 long round by Doulton's factories, to save the toll 

 on Vauxhall Bridge, which was the direct road. One 

 ingenious device to put him in funds was the sale 

 to his mother of arrowroot made from potatoes at 

 so much per lb., she having presented him with the 

 potatoes I Then there was a great demand for arrow- 

 root in the household, the young sisters petitioning for 

 its daily consumption. 



In jottings for 1831 there is an entry of three oil- 

 paintings being given in part payment for a mountain 

 barometer and sextant. The only specimen of his 

 painting which escaped conversion into money is the 

 copy of a small picture by Wouvermann. 



The system of working hard day after day on 

 stinted food must have had a bad effect on his health, 

 and it is a question whether it did not tell injuriously 

 on him in after-life. Supper over, whether tired or 

 not, he repeated some experiments to the small 



