MEMOIR OF THOMAS BEWICK. 35 



bellishments to various other works, which it is now 

 impossible to particularize. One may be mentioned, 

 Dr Thornton's " Medical Botany/' But as he had 

 himself no knowledge of this department of natural 

 science, the cuts engraved for this work were mere- 

 ly servile copies of the drawings sent, executed with 

 great exactness indeed, but not at all con amore. It 

 is believed that the work itself obtained very little 

 of the public attention. 



Several of the later years of Mr Bewick's life were, 

 in part at least, devoted to a work on British Fishes. 

 A number of very accurate drawings were made by 

 himself, and more by his son Robert, whose accu- 

 racy in delineation is perhaps equal to his father's. 

 From twenty to thirty of these had been actually en- 

 graved, and a very large proportion (amounting to 

 more than a hundred) of vignettes, consisting of ri- 

 ver and coast scenery, the humours of fishermen and 

 fishwomen, the exploits of birds of prey in fish- 

 taking, &c. It was hoped that his son would have 

 gone on with and completed the work, but in this 

 the public have been disappointed ; and now that 

 Mr Yarrell's beautiful work is completed, it possi 

 bly might not answer. 



Mr Bewick had a continued succession of pupils, 

 many of whom have done the highest honour to their 



