432 MEMOIR OF THE LATE DR THOMAS CHARLES HOPE. 
almost so exclusively to the business of methodizing and detailing the discoveries 
of others. 
We may here remark, that besides the eminent philosophers already men- 
tioned as his friends, Horr was on terms of very friendly intercourse with Warr, 
Daron, Wottaston, and Davy. His acquaintance with the latter began in 1799, 
ere that illustrious man had yet risen to celebrity. In passing through Bristol, 
Hope visited the Pneumatic Institution of Dr Beppors, and was much struck with 
the originality and inventive genius of young Davy. Soon afterwards, a lecturer 
of talent was wanted to fill the Chemical Chair in the Royal Institution esta- 
blished in London, under the management of Count Rumrorp. Dr Hope was 
consulted ; he strongly recommended Davy to the notice of the Count; and in 
1801, the young chemist was established in the Royal Institution. This anec- 
dote, which I have extracted from the original correspondence, once in my hands, 
is honourable to the discernment of Horr, who thus early recognised that energetic 
genius, which was destined to win the proudest laurels in the career of physical 
discovery. 
Among Dr Hore’s most intimate friends in Scotland, were Dr Hutton, the 
geologist, and Sir James Hatu. From the intercourse with these eminent men, 
he had early imbibed their geological tenets; and for many years he was the only 
public teacher of science in this country, who inculcatedthe doctrines of the 
Plutonic theory of the earth. During the many years of my studies in this Uni- 
versity, Hore regularly gave several interesting lectures on geology in his chemical 
course, and was a strenuous assertor of the truth of the Huttonian theory, which 
he continued annually to teach in many subsequent years ; while the rival Wer- 
nerian doctrines were most ably, and no less strenuously maintained, by my 
friends, Professor JAMESON, and the late most eminent and eloquent lecturer Dr 
JoHN Murray. At that time the chemical history of mineral bodies formed no 
inconsiderable part of a course of chemistry; and it was in introducing the 
mineral kingdom to the notice of his pupils, that Dr Horr exhibited many of the 
proofs of the igneous formation of stony bodies; which was also illustrated by a 
well-selected series of rocks, chiefly collected by himself in different excursions 
in the Highlands and Western Isles, and in various other parts of the United 
Kingdom. 
For many years Dr Hore enjoyed uncommon health, and continued to 
discharge the duties of the Chemical Chair with his usual success, until within a 
year of his death. 
A few years before that event, he complained to me of inability to read by 
candlelight, and of suffering severe pain in his eyes on making the attempt. On 
examining his eyes, I discovered on each cornea those minute depressions like the 
marks of the point of a pin, which have been described by some authors as abrasion, 

