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ner, of Frampton-upon-Severn, while they were together 
upon the road between Gloucester and Bristol, near Newport, 
a name most interesting to ourselves, the completeness of 
his hope and expectation, and it was not till 1798, nearly 
thirty years from the date when the ferment in his mind 
began, that he published his “Inquiry into the Causes and 
Effects of the Variolce Vaccina .” You will see that it was 
no chance and accidental discovery, stumbled upon in a 
blind and blundering way by an ordinary man. If ever 
there was an instance of reasoning from effect to cause, 
and again from cause to a much more perfect effect, the 
most admirable process of the highest mind, it was certainly 
this. 
In 1770, Jenner’s apprenticeship at Sodbury being com¬ 
pleted, he went to London for the purpose of pursuing his 
studies still further at St. George’s Hospital under the cele¬ 
brated Dr. John Hunter, with whose, family, it has been 
ascertained by Dr. Turner, the noted Dr. William Hunter 
of our own Newport was directly allied. The pupil and 
teacher soon proved kindred spirits. He became a resident 
of Hunter’s house, and as an assistant and friend rather 
than as student merelv, he remained there and in this rela- 
tion for more than two years, the intimacy continuing long 
after, for over twenty years, until Hunter’s death in 1793. 
While with Hunter, and at his recommendation, he was 
employed by Sir Joseph Banks, subsequently President of 
the Royal Society, to arrange the natural history specimens 
collected by him and Dr. Daniel Charles Solander — a 
Swedish naturalist who was afterwards sub-librarian of the 
British Museum — during Capt. James Cook’s first voyage 
around the world, w 7 hich was completed in 1771. The in¬ 
telligent exactness with which he fulfilled this duty led to 
his appointment as naturalist to Cook’s second voyage, which 
soon ensued. This position, however, he felt compelled to 
decline. 
Jenner had now nominally completed his education, 
though he always remained a student. He himself tells 
