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by them that he sent them on to Mr. Stanley (afterwards 

 Lord Derby), then in charge of the Government Emanci 

 pation Bill, just passing through the House of Commons. 

 But the clause which they chiefly affected had been already 

 adopted. 



The medical studies interrupted by the voyage to the 

 West Indies were resumed for another session in Bristol ; 

 but in the autumn of 1834, William Carpenter proceeded 

 to London. There he attended lectures at University 

 College sometimes as many as thirty-five in a week and 

 medical and surgical practice at the Middlesex Hospital, 

 where he acted for a time as clinical clerk to Dr. Watson. 

 Widening the ordinary range of professional study, he 

 entered for the course delivered by Dr. Grant on Compara 

 tive Anatomy ; and to this he afterwards looked back with 

 peculiar interest, not only for the information which he 

 gained through it, but for the mental quickening and special 

 love of the subject which it roused within him. In the 

 meanwhile the severity of his studies was relieved by the 

 one pursuit which in later years afforded him unfailing 

 recreation, his music. 



You ask me (he wrote to his brother Russell) how I get on 

 with my music. 1 consider pretty well, seeing that I am entirely 

 a self-taught genius. My instrument is a seraphine, which is 

 made with ke\s like a piano or organ, and sounds hy small 

 reeds like those of the mouth-aeolians, which you may remember, 

 only belter tuned, and worked by bellows. I chose it in 

 preference to a piano, because it has exactly the touch of the 

 organ, which it is my great ambition some time or other to 

 play. 



Then came the inevitable examinations, with the 

 natural comments of a successful candidate, not perhaps 

 forgotten when in later days he himself sat in the ex 

 aminer s chair. 



