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61 house, which were numerously attended by men of general science. To conceal any great truth, the promulgation of which tended to promote natural knowledge or the com- mon good, the certain prospect of boundless wealth, would with him have been unavailing. Wealth!——this was a subject that never em- ployed his thoughts; and had his hard-earned professional emoluments been tenfold what they were, there is every reason to believe that the amount would have been employed in the furtherance of his grand design ; and that ultimately he would have died, accord- ing to the common acceptation of the words, a poor man. Here it may be proper to men- tion, for such honourable conduct can never be too often noticed and acknowledged, that Dr. Jenner, the happy discoverer of �