An Harveian oration [1819] and other remains of John Johnstone.

  • John Johnstone
Date:
1837
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Credit: An Harveian oration [1819] and other remains of John Johnstone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    retained what his quickness led him readily to understand, and his taste to appreciate. And he had the great advantage of long years of intimacy with the most eminent scholars of his age. During forty years he possessed the friendship, and was honored with the familiar intercourse of one who shone among the first of scholars, velut inter ignes luna minores, the late Dr. Parr of Hat- ton, who resided about fifteen miles from Birmingham. He was intimate with the present Bishop of Durham, as well as with the writer of this Memoir. By the vene- rable and deeply learned President of Magdalen College Oxford, and by many other most distinguished scholars of that University, he was highly esteemed ; among whom should be reckoned as connected with him not only by the ties of learning, but also by similarity of professional pursuits, that very elegant and accomplished scholar Sir Henry Halford, Bart., President of the College of Physicians.