Mr.M.S.Pearse has sent us the following interesting reminiscence: "Some time since, when in the West of Cornwall, I was anxious to find out whether any one remembered Murdock.
I discovered one of the most respectable and intelligent men in Camborne, Mr.William Symons, who not only distinctly remembered Murdock, but had actually been present on one of the first occasions when gas was used.

Murdock, he says, was very fond of children, and not unfrequently took them into his workshop to show them what he was doing.

Hence it happened that on one occasion this gentleman, then a boy of seven or eight, was standing outside Murdock's door with some other boys, trying to catch sight of some special mystery inside, for Dr.Boaze, the chief doctor of the place, and Murdock had been busy all the afternoon.

Murdock came out, and asked my informant to run down to a shop near by for a thimble.

On returning with the thimble, the boy pretended to have lost it, and, whilst searching in every pocket, he managed to slip inside the door of the workshop, and then produced the thimble.