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nor cultivate the acquaintance to be met with at tea-tables; but rather chose to employ his time at home in the perusal of an ingenious author, or to spend an attic evening in a select company of men of sense and learning. In this he resembled Dr Armstrong, whose limited practice in his profession was owing to the same cause. In the latter end of the year 1750 he was introduced to Dr Fothergill by Dr Cuming, with a view of instituting a Medical Society, in order to procure the earliest intelligence of every improvement in physic from every part of Europe. At the same period he tells his friend, "Dr Mead has very generously offered to assist me with all his interest for succeeding Dr Hall at the Charter-house, whose death has been for some time expected. Inspired with gratitude, I have ventured out of my element (as you will plainly perceive), and sent him an ode." Dr Templeman's epitaph on Lady Lucy Meyrick (the only English copy of verses of his writing that we know of), is printed in the eighth volume of the "Select Collection of Miscellaneous Poems, 1781." In 1753 he published the first volume of "Curious Remarks and Observations in Physic, Anatomy, Chirurgery, Chemistry, Botany, and Medicine; extracted from the History and Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris;" and the second volume in the succeeding year. A third was promised, but we believe never printed. It appears, indeed, that if he had met with proper encouragement from the public, it was his intention to have extended the work to twelve volumes, with an additional one of index, and that he was prepared to publish two such volumes every year. His translation of "Norden's Travels" appeared in the beginning of the year 1757; and in that year he was editor of "Select Cases and Consultations in Physic, by Dr Woodward," 8vo. On the establishment of the British Museum, in 1753, he was appointed to the office of keeper of the reading-room, which he resigned on being chosen, in 1760, secretary to the then newly instituted Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. In 1762, he was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Science of Paris, and also of the Econological Society at Berne. Very early in life Dr Templeman was afflicted with severe paroxysms of an asthma, which eluded the force of all that either his own skill, or that of the most eminent physicians then living, could suggest to him; and it continued to harass him till his death, which happened September 23, 1769. He was esteemed a man of great learning, particularly with respect to languages; spoke French with great fluency, and left the character of a humane, generous, and polite member of society.