258 HEWETY COTTRELL WATSON. 
love for sears got its first encouragement. ‘‘ During my school- 
ays,” he te, ‘a boyish fancy for plants and devia vars, which 
I had early Pinhoriiad, attracted the a notice of Dr. Stanley, 
whose opportune instruction and encouragement gave a scientific 
direction to the taste, and rendered it the solace and relief of the 
as he was a frail delicate child, Mr. Watson, who was ten years 
older, often gave him cakes and interfered for his Sestestnn 
At first he was intended for the army, but at an early age an 
accident from a cricket bat, which ruined in permanence the joint 
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for several years, attending the ordinary classes of the medical 
curriculum, and giving special attention to Botany and Physiology. 
wish to practice, he never took it. After travelling about for some 
time he purchased, about 1835, a small house (which he afterwards 
enlarged) with a pleasant garden a orchard attached to it, a 
short distance north of the village Thames Ditton, a stone’s- 
throw from the point where the Siacoh to Hampton Court leaves 
the main London and South Western line; and here he lived ins 
the remainder of his life. He never married, but was fortunate 
that the same housekeeper who came to him when he first shied 
down in a house of his own remained with him for the whole forty- 
six years, and nur oe him through his last tedious illness. 
uring his Edinburgh ogg Hg he took great interest in o 
lectures of Professor Grah am, whom he accompanied in 
temporaries who took special interest in Botany were Dr. Balfour, 
Dr. Greville, Dr. Patrick Neill, Sir Walter Trevelyan, and Mr. 
Embleton ; and in those early days when he first settled down 
——— into botanical work no one did more to help and 
neourage him than Sir William Hooker, to whom Dr. Graham 
pei se an introduction, who was then in the full tide of his pro- 
fessional career at Glasgow. He accompanied Sir William and his 
i oo of their Highland excursions, and dedicated to 
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he studied in this city, and my deienialates with him he been 
