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years not to say my attainments hardly justified the 

 appellation of Professor. It is true that Professor Hum- 

 phrey Davy of London was a man of my own age, and was 

 equally youthful in appearance ; but he had already distin- 

 guished himself by important researches and discoveries. 

 To Dr. Hope I was indebted for other civilities, particu- 

 larly in walking with me to Leith, to use his personal in- 

 fluence in obtaining for me some articles of glass apparatus, 

 especially some instruments like those which I had seen 

 successfully used in his own experiments. He was too 

 liberal to allow any little jealousy of a pupil to restrain him 

 from a kind and useful action. The father of Dr. Hope 

 was Professor of Botany in the University. In a walk with 

 Mr. Codmnn to Leith, we entered the Botanical Garden, 

 which was beautiful, although it was winter. A monument 

 has been erected in the garden by the late Botanical Pro- 

 fessor to the memory of Linnaeus. It bears the simple 

 inscription Linnceo posuit G. Hope. 



Expecting from the first to be ultimately connected with 

 a medical school in Yale College, I attended the course of 

 anatomy in Philadelphia, and here in Edinburgh I selected 

 several courses of which mention will be made hereafter. 

 That of Dr. Gregory had great celebrity, and I took his 

 ticket among the first. An amusing circumstance occurred 

 when I called at his office. It was evening, and I found 

 him in a basement room impatiently listening to a long 

 story of ailments, and he evidently wished to be rid of his 

 long-winded patient. I waited quietly until the man rose 

 to depart, evidently very much to the Professor's relief, and 

 the departing invalid had only cleared the door, when Dr. 

 Gregory threw it back with a thundering noise, and then 

 turning to me abruptly, exclaimed, "A dyspeptic man, 

 never get well and never die, plague one to death ! " I 

 contented myself with taking the Professor's ticket and 

 paying for it, (3 5s.,) but as I did not make myself known, 

 I had no occasion to complain of want of liberality. The 



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