Nature and Man
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ISBN13: 9780217024839
Paperback|9780217024839
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Dagon, the piano coming in only second, as Dagonella. The microscope also was busily employed in the evenings in the drawing-room, and Dr. Carpenter began a series of investigations into the microscopical structure of shells, which first made known his capacities for independent research. The chapel and its organ were not forgotten. And the whole was crowned in 1841 by the birth of a son. Here is a glimpse of his life, as it was shaping itself in the spring of 1842, when he was just finishing his winter courses of lectures: ? I have been working a good deal with the microscope, and have made some discoveries which I think quite worthy of being communicated to the Royal Society. I am also busy in preparing our collection of psalm-tunes, which we are about to publish. There have been several good reviews of my Physiology. Little Billy is thriving very well, and is really a very intelligent, good-tempered child. I am glad he does not take after his papa in the latter particular. Dr. Carpenter had now acquired a reputation as a scientific writer, which justified him in becoming a candidate, in the summer of 1842, for the Professorship of the Institutes of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh. Many of the eminent teachers of the faculty would have welcomed such a colleague; but the chair was not in their gift. The election lay with the Lord Provost and the Town Council, who regarded his Unitarianism as a fatal disqualification for the teaching of physiology, and declined even to consider his claims. It was a bitter disappointment to him; and the repetition of it some years later, when he again came forward as candidate for the post vacated by the lamented death of his friend, ProfessorEdward Forbes, reopened an old wound. But he had the happiness of feeling, long before he...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217024839 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217024831 |
| Weight | 1.07 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 In |
| List Price | $25.32 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 328 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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