34 MEMOIR OP JOHN BARCLAY. 



religion and morality to which these observations 

 may lead, must strongly recommend you to the con- 

 fidence of those who, requiring your aid as profes- 

 sional men, must often entrust you with the secrets 

 of families, and be forced to rely not more on your' 

 skill than on your integrity. 



When you wish me to enjoy those pleasant reflec- 

 tions that arise from the usefulness and respectability 

 of my pupils, you wish me indeed that kind of re- 

 ward of which I feel that my heart would be proud ; 

 a reward, Gentlemen, of which, if I rightly be able 

 to judge, I naturally may expect no small share from 

 you who liave honoured me with this address. — I 

 am. 



Gentlemen, 

 With esteem and gratitude, 



Your very sincere friend, 

 (Signed) John Barclay. 



Perhaps no teacher was ever more generally be- 

 loved by his pupils than Dr. Barclay, to which his 

 uniform kindness and affability, and readiness to 

 promote their interest upon every occasion, materially 

 contributed. '' Besides, he gave," says Sir George 

 Ballingall, who had good opportunities of knowing, 

 " many young men gratuitous admission to his own 

 lectures, and has even been known to furnish them 

 vnth the means of feeing other teachers." 



Next year, 1812, appeared his '^ Description of the 

 Arteries of the Human Body," a work of vast labour 



