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not lose sight of any you can beg, buy, borrow or steal 
for me. 
I am always up at 6 and go to the garden at 7. At 9| 
I go up to Graham's and breakfast and then down to the 
garden again, where his Herb. is. I work at it the rest of 
the day or when able go to Gregory's ^ lectures on Organic 
Chemistry from 3-4 ; then return and dress for dinner and 
call to see how Graham is. (I am rather heavily ironed 
with Society here, and have not paid for one dinner since 
my arrival— even with a headache.) I generally get home 
about 11 and cram for lectures hke a dragon till 1 or 2— you 
see I must dine out for two reasons, first because the good 
people must know me before they elect me (do not say the 
safest plan would be to stay at home !), and secondly because 
I hear a great deal of excellent music in this town which is 
irresistible. Balfour ^ is exerting himself to the utmost 
with the townspeople and I should not wonder to see 
him carry the chair : I assure you I shall be quite con- 
tent to go back without the Professorship if I could only 
see these unfortunate Grahams safe through their sea of 
troubles. 
No wonder that by the end of June he says : 
I get very tired of it towards the end of the week. 
Wednesday is my favourite day, as three lectures or the half 
is over ; Thursday I get weary in, but the knowledge of 
Friday being the last hfts me through that hour. 
1 William Gregory (1803-58) Avas the fifth in lineal descent of his family 
to hold a professorship at Edinburgh, the first of mathematics, three of medicine, 
William himself of chemistry. He was a pupil of Liebig, whose works he 
edited in English, as well as publishing successful handbooks of his own on 
Organic and Inorganic Chemistry. 
3 John Hutton Balfour (1808-84) gradually gave up a successful medical 
practice in Edinburgh in favour of botany, to which he had been devoted 
since his student days under Graham, helping in 1836 to found the Edinburgh 
Botanical Society, whose library and herbarium were eventually acquired by 
the CroMH as the basis of the collections at the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens. 
In 1842 he succeeded Sir W. Hooker at Glasgow, and three years later was 
elected to the Edinburgh chair on the death of Graham, defeating J. D. Hooker, 
This chair he held till 1879, writing successful text-books, developing the 
Gardens and the museum, and proving himself an inspiring teacher. He not 
only extended the field work already established, but was the pioneer in 
Edinburgh of practical laboratory work with the microscope. But though 
stimulating his pupils to consider the wider problems of botany, his religious 
views led to his opposing the Darwinian movement. 
