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limited to justify tbe enterprise on the part of the Science and Art 

 Department, and it was soon abandoned. Judd, after some futile 

 attempts to obtain employment as a teacher of science, resigned 

 himself to the work of general elementary teaching and became 

 master of a school at Horncastle in Lincolnshire. Here, however, 

 he spent all his spare time in scientific studies, devoting the greater 

 part of his nights to work in a small chemical laboratory which 

 he had fitted up in his house. His holidays during three years' 

 residence in Lincolnshire were spent in rambling about the county 

 and making himself acquainted with its geological features. 



Although the examination for the teachership in science led to no 

 direct practical result, yet it proved the turning-point in Judd's 

 career by introducing him to the notice of the two examiners — his 

 subsequent friends and colleagues. Professor (afterwards Sir Andrew) 

 Kamsay and Mr. (afterwards Sir Warington) Smyth. These 

 geologists, after the perusal of the young candidate's papers, both 

 communicated with him, giving him warm encouragement and 

 offering their assistance if he came to the Royal School of Mines to 

 continue his studies. 



It was not, however, till the beginning of 1863 that Judd found 

 himself able to accept the invitation. He then entered the Jermyn 

 Street School by passing the examinations of the first two years 

 with the object of taking the courses of the third year. It was, 

 however, possible at that time to attend all the series of lectures 

 during one year, and very gladly he availed himself of the 

 opportunity of listening to the discourses of Hofmann, Tyndall, 

 Huxley, Ramsay, Smyth, Percy, and Willis, as well as to 

 occasional lectures by Owen, Jukes, and others. At the end of 

 the third year Judd, instead of sitting for the Associateship, became 

 a candidate for one of the newly instituted Royal Exhibitions. This 

 he did in the hope of being able to spend three years in higher 

 studies and research. But on winning the exhibition he found that 

 uo arrangements could be made, within the circumscribed limits of 

 the Jermyn Street building, for such advanced work, and he some- 

 what reluctantly accepted an offer to become analytical chemist in 

 the iron and steel works of Messrs. Cammell & Co. at Sheffield. 



The residence of Judd at Sheffield, though limited to less than 

 a year, exercised a very important influence upon his future 

 career, for it was there that he formed the acquaintanceship of 

 Henry Clifton Sorby, who became his lifelong friend. Mr. Sorby 

 taught him to make thin sections of rocks, and fully impressed upon 

 him the value of this method of research. This was in the year 

 1864 — a period when the microscopic study of rocks had attracted 

 but little attention either in this country or abroad. The residence 

 at Sheffield was brought to a sudden end by a railway accident in 

 which Judd nearly lost his life. 



After many months of confinement to a sick bed, Judd was 

 ordered by the doctors to abstain from settled employment for some 

 years, and he gladly availed himself of the opportunity to return 

 to Lincolnshire and devote an out-of-door life to continuing the 



