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they might reach the best seats in the hall of the professor 

 who was to lecture next. But the zealous teacher did not 

 give over with the ebbing tide of his pupils, but continued, 

 with an elevated voice and excited action, to pursue the re 

 tiring crowd until they had cleared the door and he could 



be heard no more I never lost one of Dr. Hope's 



lectures, although I was absent from one, I believe on 

 the occasion of going to breakfast with Dr. Anderson, 

 April 2, 1806, with my friend Mr. Cod man, to meet the 

 Earl of Buchan and a literary circle ; but my kind friend, 

 Rev. David Dickson, took full notes for me. I took notes 

 myself always ; and in my rough way, without graphic 

 skill, I made such sketches of apparatus, when there was 

 anything peculiar, that I could afterwards recall the struct 

 ure and arrangement. I still have my note-book of Dr. 

 Hope's lectures, and they were of material service to me 

 both in the composition of my own lectures, and in the ex 

 perimental preparation and delivery after my return 



I have paused for a few moments to look them up, and 

 have them now before me, numbered " Hope's Lectures, I. 

 II. III." They were hastily written, chiefly in the lecture- 

 room, and although fifty-two and fifty-three years old, they 

 are still quite legible, and the figures, rude indeed, are in 

 telligible. There is a pensive interest in looking them 

 over. I believe all who were concerned in them with me, 

 and at Dr. Anderson's breakfast, are dead. Dr. Codman, 

 Dr. Gorham, the learned Professor Hope himself, Rev. Dr. 

 Dickson, who wrote the notes in my stead, Dr. Anderson, 

 and his guest the Earl of Buchan, and probably most, if 

 not all, of those assembled at that literary breakfast, are 

 now in the other world, and perhaps I may be the only sur 

 vivor, at the age of almost seventy-nine. On looking at 

 my notes and journal, I find that I lost no time. I arrived 

 in Edinburgh at midnight, November 22d, 1805, on Friday. 

 Saturday, November 23d, I settled myself in lodgings ; the 

 24th was the Sabbath, and on Monday, the 25th, the ear- 



