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In the Greek class he seems to have been entered as 

 a private student, exciting little notice. 1 In the same 

 capacity he attended the lectures of Dr. Wardlaw. 

 He had a great admiration for that divine, and accepted 

 generally his theological views. But Livingstone was not 

 much of a scientific theologian. 



His chief work in Glasgow was the prosecution of 

 medical study. Of his teachers, two attracted him beyond 

 the rest — the late Dr. Thomas Graham, the very dis- 

 tinguished Professor of Chemistry, and Dr. Andrew 

 Buchanan, Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, his 

 life-long and much-attached friend. While attending 

 Dr. Graham's class he was brought into frequent contact 

 with the assistant to the Professor, Mr. James Young. 

 Originally bred to a mechanical employment, this young 

 man had attended the evening course of Dr. Graham, and 

 having attracted his attention, and done various pieces 

 of work for him, he became his assistant. The students 

 used to gather round him, and several met in his room, 

 where there was a bench, a turning-lathe, and other 

 conveniences for mechanical work. Livingstone took an 

 interest in the turning-lathe, and increased his know- 

 ledge of tools — a knowledge which proved of the highest 

 service to him when — as he used to say all missionaries 

 should be ready to do — he had to become a Jack-of- 

 all-trades in Africa. 



Livingstone was not the only man of mark who 

 frequented that room, and got lessons from Mr. YouDg 

 " how to use his hands." The Bight Hon. Lyon Playfair, 

 who has had so distinguished a scientific career, was 

 another of its habitues. A galvanic battery constructed 



1 A very sensational and foolish reminiscence was once published of a raw 

 country youth coming into the class with his clothes stained with grease and 

 whitened by cotton-wool. This was Livingstone. The fact is, nothing could 

 possibly have been more unlike him. At this time Livingstone was not working 

 at the mill ; and, in regard to dress, however plainly he might be clad, he was 

 never careless, far less offensive. 



