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humour which his friends so much appreciated. One 

 of the many amusing cases of faulty language given by 

 Hodgson is an instance of ambiguity in the use of the 

 demonstrative and possessive pronouns, viz. : " Mr. A. 

 presents his compliments to Mr. B. I have got a hat 

 which is not his ; if he have got a hat which is not yours 

 no doubt they are the missing one." No reference to 

 authority is given with this quotation. It eventually 

 found its way into Punch. 



We had to learn a good deal of poetry, most of 

 which I regret I have forgotten. Sight-memory and 

 ear-memory are two totally distinct faculties : I pos- 

 sessed the former, but not the latter to any great 

 extent ; and I suppose this former faculty is the more 

 useful to a scientific man. I never forget a face, though 

 I may not at once remember to whom it belongs. This 

 peculiarity is specially valuable to a doctor. I met 

 with a good instance of this some few years ago. When 

 at Braemar I became acquainted with the late Sir 

 Andrew Clark, with whom I was afterwards on more 

 or less intimate terms, and I discussed with him then 

 the question of gout from which I had been suffering, 

 and he gave me some excellent advice. Many years 

 afterwards I happened to be calling on my old friend 

 Sir Joseph Whitworth, who was then living in Great 

 George Street, Westminster. As I came out, Sir 

 Andrew Clark's carriage drove up, and, as was his 

 habit, he jumped out before the horses had stopped, and 

 rushed up to the door, meeting me face to face. He 

 had not seen me for four or five years, as I was then 

 living in Manchester. " Hallo ! " he exclaimed, " how's 

 the gout ? " The sudden sight of me at once recalled 

 to him all the circumstances connected with my case. 



I was encouraged in my taste for chemistry by 

 having a room set apart in our house at Liverpool for 



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