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wild beasts that died in the Tower of London, and of 

 every other such animal as he could procure, and dissected 

 them ; he compared the anatomy of them all, and discovered 

 the history of their organs. In this way he expended more 

 than 70,000 in money, besides immense labour. He was 

 in the habit of swallowing thirty drops of laudanum before 

 delivering each lecture. He died at the age of 80, 

 and after his death the English Government gave 1 5,000 

 for his collection of about 20,000 anatomical prepara-" 

 tions. 1 



' Poor Kepler struggled with constant anxieties, and 

 told fortunes by astrology for a livelihood, saying that 

 astrology, as the daughter of astronomy, ought to keep her 

 mother ; but fancy a man of science wasting precious time 

 over horoscopes.' * I supplicate you,' he writes to Moest- 

 len, c if there is a situation vacant at Tubingen, do what 

 you can to obtain it for me, and let me know the prices of 

 bread and wine and other necessaries of life, for my wife is 

 not accustomed to live on beans.' He had to accept all 

 sorts of jobs ; he made almanacks, and served anyone who 

 would pay him. His only tranquil time for study was 

 when he lived in Styria, on his wife's income, a tranquillity 

 that did not last long and never returned.' 2 



Many foreign discoverers, for instance, Tycho-Brahe, 

 Kunckel, Bucher, Stahl, Potts, Eeaumer, Bergmann, 

 Scheele, Berthollet, Morveau, Klaproth, Berzelius, and 

 various others were encouraged and substantially rewarded 

 by their sovereigns, but of English discoverers scarcely one. 

 Although Dalton's great theory of chemistry was published 

 in 1808, and his fame had for many years been spread all 

 over Europe, and he had long been appointed a correspond- 



1 Consult Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties) pp. 46-51. 



2 Hamerton, Intellectual Life, p. 182. 



