Heredity of the Intellect. 79 



Two uncles, one of them a general, long governed a portion of 

 the Madras Presidency ; the other was tutor to the Princess 

 Caroline of Brunswick. 

 NIEBUHR, the Roman historian ; 



His father, traveller and author. 



PALGRAVE, Sir Francis, author of erudite works on Anglo-Saxon 

 history. Two sons, one a scholar, the other a traveller and 

 orientalist. 

 PORSON. A family of classical scholars. We have already mentioned 



the ' Person memory.' 

 ROSCOE, well-known by his historical studies on the period of the 



Renaissance, had 



Three sons, political writers and poets. 

 LE SAGE, novelist. With him may be named 



Two sons, dramatists and actors. 

 SCALIGER, Julius Caesar, first made his mark as a scholar at the age 



of forty-seven ; 



His son Joseph, a scholar, like his father. 

 SCHLEGEL, Wilhelm, and his brother, Friedrich; 



Their father was a well-known preacher, who also wrote some 



poems ; 

 Two uncles, one dramatic poet and critic, the other historian to 



the King of Denmark. 

 SENECA, Lucius Annseus. 



His father, Marcus, a rhetorician, had a prodigious memory; 

 His brother, Gallic, Proconsul of Achaia, considered as one of 



the most accomplished Romans of his day ; 

 His nephew, Marcus Annaeus Lucan, the poet 

 SE>IGN, the Marquise de ; 



Her son was, as her letters show, a man, though dissipated, of 



considerable wit ; 



Her cousin, Bussy-Rubutin, was of similar character. 

 STAEL, Madame de. 



Her grandfather, Charles Frede'ric Necker, was professor of law 



at Geneva, and wrote on that subject; 

 Her father, minister of Louis XVI., and an author ; 

 Her uncle, Louis Necker, professor of mathematics at Geneva ; 

 The son and grandson of the latter, Jacques and Louis Necker, 

 professors of natural science at Geneva. 



