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Excerpt from Diary of a Tour Through Great Britain: In 1895
Science Classes at St. Andrews, there is no special reference to Theology until the year 1777, when he was apparently present at the 'anni versary Meeting of the Theological Society, Edinburgh.' From this there can be little doubt that he studied Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, but as the University records do not preserve the names of the theological students at that period, the inference cannot be positively verified. While at Edinburgh he also attended Professor John Walker's Natural History Class,1 as is shown by his careful record of the successive lectures, sixty-seven in number, written for the most part in shorthand. Nor were his studies confined to the Universities of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, for a later note-book testifies that he was a member of Professor William Hamilton's Anatomy Class, at Glasgow University, in the session of 1782-1783. It will thus be seen that his tastes were varied and comprehensive, and in indulging these he laid in a miscellaneous stock of knowledge which unconsciously enabled him to make his Diary more attractive and interesting than it might otherwise have been.
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