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linown, his constant study was to acquire a knowledge of the various 

 mechanical contrivances and combinations which he saw around 

 him. We next lind him apprenticed to Messrs. Remnant and 

 Edmonds, the bookbinders, in Lovell's- court : but he was far less 

 assiduous in gaining a knowledge o^ that branch of trade. He was 

 out of his time in 1847, and then, and before, seems to have found 

 opportunity for a most extensive and varied course of reading, and 

 just such reading — deeply instructive reading — as a lad usually 

 pronounces to be " slow" and " dry"; however, he now had reading 

 to his heart's content. The first book he ever bought with his own 

 money was, in 1840, Craik's ' Pursuit of Knowledge under Diffi- 

 culties.' " No written or spoken words," says Mr. Lloyd, " can 

 express the avidity with which I read Craik's book over and over 

 again, or can tell the encouragement I gained from it." At the 

 same time he met with a memoir of John Hunter, and was absorbed 

 in admiration of the great anatomist. 



" By my reading I was constantly, as it were, brought into contact with 

 him, and learned how he kept at Brompton many living animals in a small 

 menagerie, observing their habits and forms when alive, and dissecting 

 their bodies when dead, and doing so amidst many difiiculties. Pieaumur 

 and Hiiber were two other naturalists of whom I read with mentally 

 wondering eyes." 



But at this time Mr. Lloyd got involved in figures, and the 

 works of Thomas Simpson and James Ferguson, mathematicians, 

 engrossed a principal share of his time, and, stranger still, Augustus 

 de Morgan's 'Elements of Arithmetic'; thus his attention was 

 diverted for a time from facts to figures ; from truths to the 

 expression of truths. 



In 1851 he obtained a place in Old-street, at Mr. W. Brown's 

 second-hand book shop, and here, of course, he had an oppor- 

 tunity of indulging his taste for books, and of making his store 

 of knowledge still more extensive : from the ' Penny Magazine,' 

 that great source of miscellaneous knowledge, he learned a little of 

 everything. 



The 18th of November, 1852, was a public holiday, the funeral 

 of the Duke of Wellington : this memorable day Mr. Lloyd spent 

 in the Zoological Gardens, and here he met with an incident that 

 gave an aquarian tendency to the whole course of his future life. 



" On arriving there, near the side entrance, was a building I had never 

 seen before, and which had risen since my last visit — a conservatory-looking 

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