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 Kind old Dr. Hue was always ready to show me cases of interest, and he took me by an underground passage, which led to Christ's Hospital, to taste the famous pea-soup made for the lads of that old Foundation school.

I particularly valued the special visits of clinical observation, without students, which Dr. Baly and Mr. Kirkes were making.

Mr. Kirkes was preparing a new edition of his excellent 'Student's Physiology,' and Dr. Baly was pursuing his valuable investigations on dysentery. In relation to the latter, it is noted in my journal: 'He is so gentle, so friendly, and so learned in his art, that he teaches me more than anyone else.'

I also attended Mr. Paget's admirable lectures on pathological anatomy, given in the amphitheatre. My seat there was always courteously reserved for me. I experienced also the utmost consideration from the students, a large class of whom always followed Dr. Burrows's visits. Indeed, so natural did this innovation of a lady student soon become, that when, the following year, I paid my farewell visit to the treasurer, he remarked, to my great gratification, 'Why, we had quite forgotten you were here!'

Many home letters mark the various incidents of this extremely interesting period of study.

London, 28 Thavies Inn: November 1.

,—When I arrived in London on October 3, I was actually dismayed by the intolerable atmosphere, the dense envelope of foggy smoke that made me