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pride and satisfaction in observing that Leighton, Horsley, and 
Hooker are ornaments of my own Church. 
There is a circumstance connected with the late Professor s library 
which was so peculiar that I cannot resist referring to it. He was 
a most indefatigable collector of pamphlets, and formed the largest 
collection of a private individual, I believe, in Scotland ; and it is 
always curious to notice what any man has done different from other 
men. Some years ago I had the honour of reading before this 
Society a memoir of my illustrious friend Hr Chalmers. Professor 
More heard of my intention, and very kindly offered me the use 
of a volume, which he had collected, of sermons, memoirs, poems, 
&c., all relating to Hr Chalmers. I found this one of a series of 
volumes of collected fugitive pieces, then amounting to 700 or 800; 
but which, before he died, the Professor had raised to the number of 
1400 volumes, — that is, about 14,000 pamphlets. It would be de- 
sirable that the volumes should be purchased unbroken for some public 
library. Such collections are very valuable for reference. Single 
pamphlets, lying loose in a library, are a regular nuisance, and most 
troublesome, always getting in the way ; but if you look for any par- 
ticular pamphlet you never find it. Pamphlets, however, when formed 
into such a collection as this, are a very different matter, and may, 
as I have said, be extremely valuable, as affording to future students 
of history very important information on cotemporary circumstances, 
which is sometimes not otherwise to be obtained ; and for this reason 
some rare and curious pamphlets have been sold for enormous prices, 
and are much coveted by collectors. One of the most curious his- 
torical collections of pamphlets in this kingdom is that in the British 
Museum, which was presented in 1763, by George III., to the 
library of that gigantic institution. It was made by a royalist 
bookseller, named George Thomson, during the Commonwealth. It 
consists of 2220 volumes, and contains about 34,000 pamphlets, 
nearly all of which refer to the civil wars, and to the affairs of the 
country between 1640 and 1661. To show the comparative extent 
of Professor More’s collection by a private individual, as com- 
pared with public collections, I may note here that the Edinburgh 
Subscription Library is advertised to contain 600 volumes, or 
about 1600 pamphlets; the Signet Library contains about 5000 
pamphlets ; the College Library about 25,000 ; and the Advocates 
Library near 67,000 pamphlets, or 3649 volumes. In catalogues 
