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Class A Sprained Knee Daily Life Repeats Transmutation Experi- 

 ments First Visit to Church Able to walk alone Illness of his cousin 

 James Eussell His Last Days and Death Pet Terrier Baptism Union 

 with Independent Church' Sleepy Hollow,' .... 293-322 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Systematic and Occasional Lectures The Philosophical Institution Single 

 Lectures of little use Helps Ragged Schools, etc., willingly Chemistry 

 of a Candle Contributions to Science Colour-Blindness Text-Book of 

 Chemistry Lives of Cavendish and Reid Lines to Dr. John Reid 

 Electricity and the Electric Telegraph ; and the Chemistry of the Stars 

 The Grievance of the University Tests, ...... 323-349 



CHAPTER IX. 



Love of Pupils Presentation of Balance Lines to the Stethoscope Sleep 

 of the Hyacinth "Wings of the Dove and the Eagle One of the Advan- 

 tages of not being able to Write your Name Friendship of Lord Jeffrey 

 Death of his sister Mary Lines to a deceased Terrier Desire to serve 

 Christ more fully Letters to Invalids Lecture to Medical Students 

 Advantage of a Creed ' Athanasius Contra Mundum' Spiritual Al- 

 chemy Travelled little Prostration in Spring ' George's Nonsense' 

 What makes Patriots Holiday Times Crystal Palace, 1851 Death of 

 his cousin John Russell Illness Broken arm Letters written with left 

 Hand Camera Obscura Juvenile AVives Bearing in general Society 

 Thoughts in Sickness Life between Seventeen and Thirty-two Curtain 

 Lectures A Troublesome Tenant Letters to Invalids Hymn for Sick- 

 room Removes to Elm Cottage How to help Absent Ones, . . 350-399 



CHAPTER X. 



Health Feeble Death of Edward Forbes Lines to his Memory Jacobite 

 Stories Hugh Miller Alarming Illness An Epitaph Appointed Direc- 

 tor of Scottish Industrial Museum More Sure Hope in Christ Visit to 

 Melrose Professor of Technology Definition of Technology Duke of 

 Argyle's Satisfaction with the New Chair Petition for a Gown A Fairy 

 Cushion Inaugural Lecture, 'What is Technology?' Syllabus of Course 

 Works harder than ever Lectures and Addresses to various Bodies 

 Wanted a Monkey Nearer to Christ ! Practises saying No Changes at 

 Bridge of Allan General Knowledge Lecture ' On the Character of God 

 as inferred from Human Anatomy' The Five Gateways of Knowledge 

 A Private and Confidential Letter To be Hanged in Red Tape Begging 

 Cap Various Lectures and Addresses Visits London, Manchester, and 

 Dublin in 1857 Attack of Splenitis Lecture to Merchant Company 

 The "Graphic Industrial Arts" Finds himself Forty, . . . 400-451 



