An account of the life, writings, and character, of the late Dr John Hope, Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh : delivered as the Harveian oration at Edinburgh, for the year 1788 / by Andrew Duncan.

  • Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828.
Date:
1789
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Credit: An account of the life, writings, and character, of the late Dr John Hope, Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh : delivered as the Harveian oration at Edinburgh, for the year 1788 / by Andrew Duncan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ced him at the fchool of Dalkeith, then one1 of the moft celebrated in Scotland, from the abilities of Mr Barclay, whofe philological la- bours are (till highly inftructive both to the Greek and Latin fcholar. After finiming the ufual courfe of fchool education, with no in- confiderable degree of approbation, he enter- ed to the Univerfity of Edinburgh; and hav-1 ing, as it were, an hereditary predilection for the healing art, his attention was foon parti- cularly directed to that branch of fcience. While he had the good fortune of fludying at a period when mathematics was taught at Edinburgh by the immortal M'Laurin, and o- ther branches of philofophical knowledge were entrufted to able teachers, he had alfo the happinefs of being the pupil of thofe eminent profelfors, whofe induftrious exertions not on- ly laid the foundation of the medical fchool at Edinburgh, but gave it a diftinguiftied repu- tation over all Europe. At that period, the. late Dr Monro, and his worthy colleagues, had matured their lectures by induftrious re- conuderation for a feries of years, while they ftill polfeffed that vigour, both of mind and body, which rendered them equal to the A 4 greateHi