MEMOIR 



THOMAS BEWICK, 



EMINENT *W*AER ON WOOD. 







ALTHOUGH the Biographical Notices pre6xed to 

 these volumes have hitherto been confined to Scien- 

 tific Naturalists, yet, as no one perhaps has contri- 

 buted more essentially to promote the study of Zoo- 

 logy, in two of its most important branches, than the 

 ingenious Artist whose name stands at the head of 

 this article, it appears no more than an act of justice 

 to offer, in this way, a respectful tribute to his me- 

 mory. 



Though the art of cutting or engraving on wood 

 is undoubtedly of high antiquity, as the Chinese and 

 Indian modes of printing on paper, cotton, and silk, 

 sufficiently prove ; though, even in Europe, tne art 



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