MEMOIRS 



ing talents, Mr. Charles Darwin had re- 

 cently received an honorary medal from the 

 Society of Arts and Sciences, for having 

 difcovered a criterion by which pics may be 

 diftinguifhed from mucus. 



A few years before Dr. Darwin left 

 Lichfield as a refidence he commenced a 

 botanical fociety in that city. It confifled 

 of himfelf, Sir Brooke Boothby, then Mr. 

 Booth by, and a Proftor in the Cathedral 

 jurifdi<Sion, whofe name was Jackfon. 

 Sprung from the loweft poffible origin, 

 and wholly uneducated, that man .had, by 

 the force of literary ambition and unwearied 

 induftry, obtained admittance into the 

 courts of the fpiritual la\v, a profitable 



{hare of their emoluments, and had made 



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a -tolerable proficience in the Latin and 

 French languages. His life, which dofed 

 at fixty, was probably fhortened by late 

 acquired habits of ebriety. He pafled 

 through it's courfe a would-be philofopher, 



a turgid 



