ing obtained a sight of it, was (struck 
with the acuteness of observation it ex¬ 
hibited. A more intimate acquaintance 
with the character and attainments of 
the writer confirmed him in the high 
opinion he had formed of the young 
student, and determined him to take 
him under his immediate patronage. 
He received him into his house; he 
advanced him In his academical course; 
and chose him as his assistant lecturer 
in the botanic gardens: an office 
which, at the advanced age of seventy, 
he found too laborious to discharge 
alone. It was no slight honour for a 
young man of three-and-twenty, to be 
selected as the representative of a ven¬ 
erable professor. He filled his new of¬ 
fice with great approbation. The nov¬ 
elty of his ideas, and his animated style 
of lecturing, charmed all his hearers ; 
and the applause he met with produced 
