*S37-5% FIRST HUNTERIAN LECTURE 109 



'May 1. — The day before R.'s first lecture ! 2 

 At 10 p.m. he read it over to me, and it lasted till 

 1 1.30. — too long.' 



' May 2. — So busy all the morning, had 

 hardly time to be nervous, luckily for me. R. 

 robed in the drawing-room and took some egg 

 and wine before going into the theatre. He then 

 went in and left me. At 5 o'clock a great noise 

 of clapping made me jump, for I timed the lec- 

 ture to last a quarter of an hour longer, but R., it 

 seems, cut it short rather than tire Sir Astley 

 Cooper too much. All went off as well as even 

 I could wish. The theatre crammed, and there 

 were many who could not get places. R. was 

 more collected than he or I ever supposed, and 

 gave this awful first lecture almost to his own 

 satisfaction ! We sat down a large party to dinner. 

 Mr. Langshaw and R. afterwards played two of 

 Corelli's sonatas.' 



' May 4. — R. up till two this morning writing. 

 But he has done capitally, for his first lecture is 

 now, as I earnestly begged him to do, spread into 

 the second, and with a little addition forms a most 

 interesting one, particularly to those whose reading 

 has not extended very far — even to the learned, 

 they cannot but fail to excite attention. R. read 

 to me what he had left out of the first lecture with 

 last night's additions. But as this did not fill up 



2 The subject of this course pical structure and nature of the 

 of lectures was the microsco- teeth. 



