1837-38 FIRST HUNTERIAN LECTURE 109 
^ May I.— The day before R.’s first lecture !' 
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 
^ The subject of this course pical structure and nature of the 
of lectures was the microsco- teeth. 
