Note 21 — PART II.—1818–1822

But for the phrase “Hume’s Lectures once done with, I flung the thing away for ever,” quoted by Mr. Froude as from “a note somewhere,” I should, on the evidence of handwriting, etc., have decided unhesitatingly for the second and more extensive of the two hypotheses.—The attendance on the Chemistry Class, which would become a fact if that hypothesis were correct, would be of some independent interest. With Carlyle’s turn for science at that time, it was not unlikely. I may add that, from talks with him, I have an impression that, some time or other, he must have attended Professor Jameson’s class of Natural History. He had certainly heard Jameson lecture pretty frequently; for he described Jameson’s lecturing humorously and to the life, the favourite topic of his recollection being Jameson’s discourse on the order Glires in the Linnæan Zoology. Though I have looked over the Matriculation Lists and also the preserved class-lists pretty carefully from 1809 to 1824, it is just possible that Carlyle’s name in one of Jameson’s class-lists within that range of time may have escaped me. The only other Professor, not already mentioned in the text, that I remember to have heard him talk of was Dr. Andrew Brown, Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres; but him he knew, I think, only by occasional dropping in at his lectures.