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MEMOIRS
OF THE
DISTINGUISHED MEN OF SCIENCE
OF GREAT BRITAIN
LIVING IN THE YEARS 1807-8.

AND APPENDIX.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

ROBERT HUNT, F.R.S., &c.

COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY

WILLIAM WALKER, JUNIOR.


Second Edition.

"The evil, that men do, lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones."
Shakspeare.

LONDON:
E. & F. N. SPON, 16, BUCKLERSBURY.


1864.

LONDON:
W. DAVY AND SON, PRINTERS, GILBERT STREET,
OXFORD STREET, W.

CONTENTS.