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same time 1 wondered at its narrowness, for not a 

 soul seemed to have the slightest knowledge of, or 

 interest in, what I had acquired in my medical 

 education and what we have since learnt to call 

 Biology. The religious dogmas were of a more 

 archaic type than I had latterly learnt to hold. I 

 thought that just as the medicals wanted the 

 thoroughness of the classicals and of the mathe- 

 maticians, so these wanted at least an elementary 

 knowledge of what was familiar to the medicals. 

 Great and salutary changes have long since been 

 introduced, and the above criticism, which was 

 perfectly just at the time, is now, I believe and 

 trust, almost wholly out of date. 



I stood far behind the majority of my fellow- 

 freshmen in classics, but less so in elementary 

 mathematics, which were then much neglected in 

 schools ; for I had an innate love of them, and had 

 indulged in some little private study. I pass lightly 

 over my first year, which was a period of general 

 progress, without much of note, until the first vacation 

 arrived. 



I then formed one of a reading party who went 

 to Keswick in Cumberland, and had rooms in the same 

 house with the two tutors, Matheson and Eddis. It 

 was called " Browtop," and was then a detached villa 

 with a wide prospect, situated in the district that now 

 bears that name. One other pupil lived there also ; 

 the rest had lodgings in the town. Being in those 

 years careless of rain and little sensitive to the ener- 

 vating air of the Lake District, I found myself 

 perfectly happy. The hills being moderate in height 

 and the distances small, an afternoon sufficed easily 



