MEMOIRS OF 



THE DISTINGUISHED MEN OF SCIENCE OF GREAT BRITAIN, 

 LIVING A.D., 1807-8. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON THE FIRST EDITION. 



ONCE A WEEK. 



Accompanying the picture, &c., there is a volume by Mr. W. Walker, 

 junior, giving a brief memoir of the salient points of each individual 

 history. This is well executed, and forms a useful book of reference for 

 those who would know more than the picture can tell. 



ENGINEER. 



Messrs. Walker's great historical engraving of the *' Distinguished Men 

 of Science," noticed some weeks ago in these columns, is accompanied by 

 a well written and handsomely printed octavo volume of 228 pages, con- 

 taining condensed biographical sketches of the fifty-one subjects of the 

 picture itself. The book appears to have been first undertaken with the 

 view of furnishing a mere outline of the life and achievements of these 

 eminent men, but the inevitable delay attending the production of a large 

 engraving, and the gradual accumulation of personal and historical details, 

 at last led Mr. Walker, Jun., to revise and considerably extend the scope 

 of his work, which now forms a very complete and desirable compendium 

 of long-neglected, and, popularly speaking, almost inaccessible biography, 

 of interest and value as well to those who cannot possess themselves of 

 the picture as to the subscribers to that work. The whole is preceded 

 by an introduction, not wanting in suggestive matter, from the pen of 



Mr. Robert Hunt, F.R.S There is probably no work, certainly 



none so well within the reach of the general public, which gives anything 

 like as full and yet concise an account of the great men of science who 

 lived and flourished half a century ago. The arrangement of the book is 

 such as to facilitate the readiest reference to any part, and, while the 

 matter is abundant, the style is clear and pleasing. We believe the book 

 will be in large request. 



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