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Excerpt from A Discourse on the Life and Character of Thomas Addis Emmet: Pronounced, by Request, in the New-York City-Hall, on the First Day of March, 1828
There was a third society, to the presidential chair of which he was elevated. This was the association for the promotion of Natural History. Its patron and pattern was Professor John Walker; who after having studied medicine, betook himself to theology, and preached to a congregation in a neighbouring parish. From this good and learned man, I derived interesting knowledge. On a visit to the little island Inch Keith, in the Frith of Forth, he showed me the nest of the Eider-duck (arias molis sima) made of the exquisitely soft down derived from her body for the purpose; and the univalve mollusca, (murex purpurea affording a juiceequal to the purple of Tyre. He explained to me the geognostic constitution of the vast basaltic columns, near Arthur's seat in the King's Park; and illustrated to my comprehension, the genera and spe cies of vegetables that we found in our rambles through the fields and gardens of mid-lothian. It is one of the delightful incidents of my_ communication to you, to recal the time long gone, and alas! To return no more, when I was taught to read the pages of Nature's admirable book, with Emmet, by such an able and amiable instructor as Walker.
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