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George Baker, and the censors who examined 

 me, I had passed through those trials with more 

 than ordinary ease. In the interval, I had be- 

 come a member of the Royal Society, the cer- 

 tificate of my fitness for which was signed by 

 the late and present presidents of the college, 

 Sir George Baker, and Dr. Gisborne, and by 

 four others of the present fellows of that body. 

 During the same interval, I had endeavoured 

 to extend the boundaries of our knowledge in 

 various parts of natural philosophy; and two of 

 my attempts of this kind, certainly not the most 

 considerable, had been recorded in the printed 

 transactions of the Royal Society. As I had 

 thus demonstrated industry at least, in the cul- 

 tivation of sciences collateral to medicine, it is 

 not probable that I had been inattentive to the 

 study of my own profession, since my peace 

 of mind necessarily depended upon my under- 

 standing it. Nor had my opportunities of gain- 

 ing experience in it been very small ; for I had 

 been eight years a physician to an extensive 

 establishment for the relief of the sick poor, 

 and I had also been physician for some time to 

 another institution of the same kind, but still 

 more considerable. From all these circum- 

 stances, I think it will readily be allowed by 

 your Lordship, that it was not likely I had be- 

 come less learned since passing the trials of a 



