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and to pray acceptably unto Him, has so filled my heart, 

 that the things of this life arrange themselves according to 

 a new perspective, and seem much smaller and farther off 

 than they did before. 



"After a year's experience, I have every reason to be 

 satisfied with my decision about the Chemistry Chair. I 

 have never once repented it." 



"Jufyzo. 



" I have been very busy, with a good deal of work 

 connected .with my office. 



" In health, however, I am wonderfully well, and abun- 

 dantly cheerful. I have had the opportunity this summer 

 of taking part in several meetings of a religious character, 

 and have felt more faith, and courage, and comfort in being 

 at them, than I think I ever did before. 



" I have increasingly to thank God that he makes my 

 path clear to me, and that to spend and be spent in Christ's 

 service is my chief desire. These are not things I write 

 about to almost any one but yourself, and they are rather, 

 as I always feel, to be buried in one's own heart, or 

 brought out in prayer to God, than given to the light 

 openly." 



During this spring and summer one or two scientific 

 papers were read to Societies. One addressed to the Royal 

 Society has already received notice ? another was read to 

 the Photographic Society; 2 and a third to the Botanical 

 Society. 3 



1 "On the Recent Vindication of the Priority of Cavendish as the 

 Discoverer of the Composition of Water." R.S.E. April, 1859. 



2 "On Dryness, Darkness, and Coldness, as means of preserving 

 Photographs from fading." "Journal of Photographic Society, 1859." 



3 " On the Fruits of Cucurbitacese and Crescentiacese, as Models of 

 various articles of Industrial Use." "Trans. Botan. Soc. 1859." 



