214 MEMOIR OF DR. HARVEY. 



I was really very glad to see him — meeting him here recalled 

 all the other pleasant faces and agreeable people that I had 

 met in Charleston, and thus turned him into something of an 

 old friend. So I set to, to discourse Mr. S., who I found had 

 left Charleston almost as soon as I did, and so had nothing new 

 to tell me. But he was very full of a book that he has just 

 written, the object of which is to prove that all mankind came 

 from Adam and Eve, in opposition to Dr. H. and Agassiz, who 

 say it is no such thing. 



What he wanted of me was to tell him where to find Pro- 

 fessor Scouler, one of our savants, who is also an ethnologist 

 and a unity man. The college porter could not tell him where 

 Scouler lived, or whether there was any such person as Scouler 

 in Dublin — or in the world. Oh fame ! here was a learned 

 doctor of Charleston come across half the world to see a learned 

 doctor of Dublin, and finds the janitor of Trinity College 

 ignorant of the very existence of the Professor. Fortunately 

 Dr. S. remembered my name, and still more fortunately (a 

 wonder, too, for porters' heads are very thick), the porter knew 

 my " whereabouts," and woke me up. When I found what my 

 reverend friend wanted, I proposed to start in search of Dr. 

 Scouler, and so off we set, at past ten o'clock at night, to find 

 the Doctor, who lives in lodgings in the suburbs, more than a 

 mile from College. When we got to the house, the servant 

 seemed disposed not to let us in, but on sending my name up 

 staii's (I said nothing of my friend), we were shown up, and 

 there we found the Doctor enjoying his notions of "otium cum 

 dignitate." There he was, with neck comfortably open, sitting 

 at a table, smoking a long pipe ; a large paper of tobacco (a 

 heap, twelve inches diameter, and eight inches high, on an open 

 sheet of paper), and a folio edition of Aristotle in Greek open 

 on the table before him. When he saw the stranger the pipe 

 was laid down, and they tackled to the unity of the races. 

 How they ended I don't know, for the discussion was adjourned 

 owing to the lateness of the hour, and Dr. S. and I departed, he 

 to his " hinn," I to my college. Next day being Sunday I got 

 him tickets to a reserved seat at St. Patrick's, and on Monday 

 Took him and his party round the college and academy, and so 

 bidding thorn a farewell, they went on their way rejoicing,' and 

 I saw them no more. I was amused at the figure we found 



