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their houses were so empty of useful household articles ?' That 

 ' furniture was an unco fash at a flittin' ' ! ! ! There, my dear 

 cousin, is a great idea, which, however, if carried out, would lead 

 to very naked results." 



The removal alluded to was to the house in Brown Square, 

 which he occupied for the next nine years, its great attraction 

 being that his lecture-room and laboratory were under its roof, 

 and he was able to attend to the duties connected with them, 

 even when prevented by ill health from going out of doors. To 

 go from his bed to his lecture-room was no uncommon thing for 

 him in the years that followed. 



The satisfaction with which the healing of his foot in the 

 month of June was contemplated, was speedily changed to 

 renewed anxiety, on finding unmistakable symptoms of pul- 

 monary affection. He spent the rest of the summer in a secluded 

 retreat, for which he had a great liking, in Jordan Bank, Morn- 

 ingside. Occasional drives, and sitting in the quiet garden (to 

 get oxygen, as he used to say), were serviceable, and he was 

 prepared, when the winter session opened, to resume his profes- 

 sional duties. They were increased by his appointment, with 

 the sanction of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scot- 

 land, as Lecturer on Chemistry to the Edinburgh Veterinary 

 College, and by a similar appointment to the School of Arts. 

 A course of lectures to young ladies at the Scottish Institution 

 on Saturdays, was also begun in November, involving altogether 

 ten lectures a week. To a sister he writes, November 26 : 

 " You will not suspect me of vanity if I tell you a thing or two 

 about my lectures. I have twenty students at my ten A.M. 

 medical class ; forty at my twelve o'clock (three days a week) 

 veterinary class ; some hundred young ladies at the Scottish 

 Institution ; and some two hundred stout fellows at the School 

 of Arts. 



" It is sometimes difficult to disentangle the one from the 

 other, and, accordingly, I called the young ladies gentlemen, and 

 made them all smile. Last Saturday, however, I took care to 

 write on my notes, at various places, the word ladies, to prevent 

 mistakes, and, as I had abundance of magnificent experiments, 

 the bonny lassies looked bonnier, and were all well pleased. 



