60 MEMOIRS OF 



imagines, that, on each fubjeft difcufled in 

 a review and magazine, it obtains the joint 

 opinion of a fet of learned men, employed 

 to appreciate the value of publications. - 

 That in every fuch work many writers are 

 engaged is true ; yet is it no lefs true that 

 in each feparate tracl the opinion is merely 

 individual on every various theme. One 

 perfon is appointed to review the medical, 

 another the chirurgical, another the cle- 

 rical, another the hiftorical, another the 

 philofophical articles, another the ethics in 

 profe, and another the poetry ; and each 

 criticifes Jingly, and unafftfled^ in his ap- 

 pointed range. 



The moft diftinguiihed of Dr. Darwin's 

 fcientific friends, who vifited him from a 

 diftance when he lived in Lichfield, have 

 now been enumerated. 



He once thought inoculation for the 

 meafles might, as in the fmall-pox, mate- 

 rially foften the difeafe ; and, after the pa^ 

 triotic example of lady Mary Wortley Mon^ 



tague, 



