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He ever spoke of the pleasure and benefit he derived from 
the meetings he had with Sir Joseph Banks, Mr Diyander, 
Dr Shaw, and the other leading members of the Linnean 
Society. After inspecting and making himself fully 
acquainted with the mineral and zoological collections 
—the Botanic Gardens, and the Leverian Museum, &c., 
he returned to Scotland, deeply sensible of the very kind 
manner in which he had been received, and the friendships 
he had formed, which, in many individuals, only terminated 
at death. On returning to Leith, he seems to have aban- 
doned his medical engagements and turned his attention 
principally to Natural History, leaving the practice of medi- 
cine to his successor in the surgery. Though he resigned 
his surgical appointment, he did not desert those studies 
connected with the medical profession, because at this 
period he applied all the time he could spare to practical 
anatomy, under the celebrated lecturer John Bell, when he 
formed a friendship with Mr Charles (afterwards Sir Charles) 
Bell, with whom he dissected for a long period, to enlarge his 
views of comparative anatomy. Whilst Mr Jameson was 
dissecting, and at the same time extending his knowledge of 
ornithology and entomology, Mr Patrick (afterwards Sir Pat- 
rick) Walker, united with him in prosecuting these branches 
of science. Mr Jameson had full advantage of Mr Walker’s 
entomological collection of native specimens, inferior only to 
that of Professor Walker, which at that time was considered 
the best Scottish collection extant. Whilst attending the che- 
mical class, his assiduity attracted the attention of the late 
Dr Rotheram, then Dr Black’s assistant, and afterwards 
Professor of Physics in St Andrews. Mr Jameson now added 
to his chemical knowledge, mineralogical information gene- 
rally, and especially in the analytical chemistry, a branch 
of science which Dr Rotheram had studied in Germany; 
and perhaps Mr Jameson’s intense desire to visit the Ger- 
man mines may, in a great degree, be attributed to the 
intimacy which subsisted between him and Dr Rotheram. 
This close intimacy between Rotheram and Jameson was 
broken off when the former retired to St Andrews, on Dr 
Hope being appointed to the chemical chair. Between Hope 
