CONTENTS xvii 



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Fossils Martin Lister and Lhuyd Fothergill presents their 

 manuscripts to the University of Oxford His plans for a review 

 of the rise of Natural History in England Indolent state of 

 the University Huddesford Corals John Ellis Fothergill's 

 marble table His collection of shells He befriends Mendez 

 Da Costa The ''Chinese Pheasant" Insects Henry Smeath- 

 man, his collector in West Africa The ill-fated settlement 

 at Sierra Leone Chinese Silk Dr. Gowin Knight's magnetic 

 machine Fothergill's aid to Priestley Observations on rain 

 The use of pictures. 



CHAPTER XVI 



FOTHERGILL AS PHILANTHROPIST AND SOCIAL REFORMER 218 



Philanthropy, false and true Fothergill's universal benevolence 

 His delicacy Generosity to his patients A London curate 

 Fothergill's use of money Instances of his bounty Attitude 

 to moral causes Slavery John Woolman Scheme for a colony 

 in Africa Prison reform John Howard Proposal to employ 

 convicts in sawing stone Fothergill as supervisor to establish 

 penitentiaries Subscription in aid of French prisoners Fother- 

 gill's paper on recovery from apparent death, 1745 Societies 

 for the recovery of the drowned, 1767 Dr. Hawes Dr. Cogan 

 The Royal Humane Society Registration of births and deaths 

 Fothergill's effort for reform, 1754 Defeat of the Bill in Par- 

 liament Use of potato flour in time of scarcity Fish brought 

 to London by land carriage Canals John Hustler Efforts of 

 Fothergill in the reform of London, to widen its streets, to pre- 

 vent fires, to prohibit sugar factories, to regulate burial, to pro- 

 mote bathing. 



CHAPTER XVII 



THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN FOTHERGILL'S EARLY DAYS 235 



Epoch of Fothergill's birth, 1712 Declension from the pristine 

 virtue of the early Friends Change in the note of the yearly 

 epistles : order rather than power Toleration Act The 

 Friends, a quiet body set apart "Marrying Out" Literary 

 activity " Public Friends" Character of the ministry. 



CHAPTER XVIII 

 SAMUEL FOTHERGILL ..... 239 



Younger brother of the doctor Wayward early life His reclama- 

 tion and call to the ministry Intimacy of the brothers A fine 

 personality The polished orator of the society His visit to 



