sable ; as you will find, when you ar¬ 
rive in Edinburgh to pursue your 
studies there, if not before . 4 Many of 
the medical students, l believe, go with 
prejudices like yours, or such as are 
equally unreasonable, and consider this 
study the most uninteresting they are 
called to engage in. Now let us see 
whether we cannot make your path 
pleasanter, by awakening in your mind 
an interest in the pursuit, before you 
are compelled to enter on it. I would 
advise you to take a few lessons of 
Ellen, whenever you are at home in the 
season of flowers. I fear I shall be 
too mnch engaged, during the? short 
time that remains of your present holi¬ 
days, to pay much attention to you on 
this or any other subject; but l will 
undertake to do my part, by relating to 
you, in letters, some of the most stri¬ 
king passages in the life of Linnseus, 
the great naturalist, whose system of 
