APPENDIX. (67) 



dated 21ft Febrviary iJAX, has affixed to it the refpecT;able names Account of 



J ,-r Di Roebucfe- 



of MUSCHENBROEK, OsTERDYK, VAN ROYEN, AlBINUS, GaU- 



Bius, &c. He left Leyden, after having vifited fome part of 

 the north of Germany, about the end of the year 1744. 



Soon after his return from the Continent, fome circumflances 

 induced Dr Roebuck to fettle, as a phyfician, at Birmingham. 

 Before that time, Birmingham had begun to make a rapid pro- 

 grefs in arts, manufacftures, and population, and, by the death 

 of an aged phyfician-, an opening was prefented to liim, which 

 afforded an immediate profpe(^ of encouragement in that line. 

 His education, talents, and interefling manners, were well cal- 

 culated to promote his fuccefs as a phyfician. He accordingly 

 met there, at a period more early than he expecfled, with great, 

 encouragement, and was foon diftinguifhed, in that town, and 

 the country adjacent, for his fkill, integrity, and charitable com- 

 paffion, in the difcharge of the duties of his profeffion. 



It appeared, however, loon after his refidence was fixed at 

 Birmingham, that his- ftudies and induftry were turned to other 

 objedls befides thofe of his profeffion. Strongly attached to 

 the rifing fcience of chemiflry, he conceived high views of ex- 

 tending its ufefulnefs, and of rendering it fubfervient to the 

 improvement of arts and manufadlures. With this view, he fit- 

 ted up a fmall laboratory in. his own houfe, in which he fpent 

 every moment of his time, which, he could fpare from the du- 

 ties of his profeffion. There, in the true fpirit of his great ma- 

 iler. Lord Bacon, of whofe philofophy he was a great admirer, 

 he carried on various chemical proceffes of great importance,. 

 and laid the foundation of his future projeidls, on well tried and 

 well, digefted experiments*. 



(1 2) The 



*- Verus experiemwe orda, prirao lumen accendit, deinde per lumen iter de.- 

 pionftratj.incipiendo ab experientia ordinata et digefta, atqnc ex ea, et educendoaxi-> 

 omata, et axiomstibus conftitutis, rurfos experimenta nova.. 



