64 MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON. CHAP. IV. 



CHAPTER IV. 



RESIDENCE IN LONDON DEGREE OF M.D. 



"In this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels 

 to be lookers-on." PREFACE TO BACON'S ' Advancement of Learning. ' 



IN the renewal of the joyous companionship of former 

 times, the brothers were truly happy. " I can't tell you half 

 what I have seen/' George's first letter to his mother says. 

 " I've been at the British Museum, and gazed with delight at 

 the splendid fossils, the huge crocodile-like monsters of the 

 ancient deep, and one specimen I wished you had seen of 

 those marks of beasts' feet which you used so much to laugh 

 at. ... I called on Professor Graham, and received a most 

 courteous reception. We talked together for an hour and 

 a half. I told him some of my speculations, and he smiled, 

 as all older and wiser heads always do. I was invited to 

 come to the laboratory whenever I listed ; but the distance 

 is tremendous, at least six miles from Daniel's place. 



" I dined last night with Professor Graham, and I spent 

 a very happy evening among a circle of young chemists. 

 I stayed behind them all, and had a long talk with him, 

 from which I learned a great deal, not reaching home till 

 one o'clock, so great are the distances. 



" I am afraid I shall not see Faraday. He's not in town 

 at present, and his lectures are not begun ; nor shall I be 



