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produced in Scotland. The other is a well-known chemist, and 

 the contributor, if we mistake not, of most of those articles on 

 scientific subjects in the ' British Quarterly Keview/ which we 

 have read with so much delight." In an article on the " Scottish 

 University Tests and the Glasgow Professorship of Chemistry," 

 the ' Spectator' says, " Dr. George Wilson comes forward as one 

 of the most eminent British chemists, one who, though a young 

 man, has already achieved high scientific and literary reputa- 

 tion, and has been for years engaged in teaching his special 

 science, to inform the Secretary for the Home Department, in 

 whose gift the appointment to the Glasgow chair practically 

 rests, that because of these tests he cannot offer himself as a 

 candidate. Here is both hardship positive and hardship com- 

 parative ; a hardship to be excluded, a double hardship to be 

 excluded when others to whom the same objection applies, find 

 themselves not thereby debarred." 1 The allusion here may be 

 to devices for overcoming the difficulty in the way, mentioned 

 in the pamphlet; how a professor-elect declared that he regarded 

 the tests merely as " Articles of Peace ;" another, having signed 

 the bond, went to a bookseller's to discover what it was he had 

 signed ; and a third affirmed that the documents he had subscribed 

 contained " the confession of his faith, and a great deal more" 



The few remaining literary fruits of the ten years under notice 

 we leave for the present, not to overburden a chapter into which 

 so much work has already been compressed. 



1 < Spectator,' September 11, 1852. 



