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studies at Glasgow, Dr. Andrew Ure was 

 the professor of chemistry, under whom it 

 was his privilege to be placed. 



About the time that Shanks went to 

 Glasgow (1821), Ure was bringing out the 

 first edition of his "Dictionary of Chemistry." 



Ure was a native of Glasgow, having been 

 born in that city in 1778. He was un- 

 doubtedly an admirable teacher, his works 

 indicate great labour and research, and he 

 was specially accurate in all he did. It is 

 recorded, "he was remarkable for his 

 accuracy in chemical analysis, and it is 

 asserted none of his results have ever been 

 upset." 



In these days, in almost every walk of life, 

 men are compelled to be specialists, they 

 have to select some subject with which they 

 shall become thoroughly and profoundly 

 acquainted, but a few of the great names of 

 the past generation have taken a wide survey 

 in the world of science, and Ure was one of 

 these. 



In 1 8 1 8 appeared his "New experimental 

 researches on some of the leading doctrines 

 of caloric, particularly on the elasticity, 

 temperature, and latent heat of different 

 vapours, and on thermometric measurement 



