26 ENGLISH MEN OF SCIENCE. [CHAP. 



Therefore as we are dealing with 3 distinct 

 periods, 11 societies, and 20 members of 

 council to each, there have been about 

 (3 x 11 x 20 =) 660 separate appointments. 

 Clergymen have held only 16 of these, or 1 

 in 40 ; and they have in nearly every case 

 been attached to those subdivisions of science 

 which have fewest salient points to scratch or 

 jar against dogma. Thus Prof. Challis, Dr. 

 Lloyd, Dr. Robinson, Dr. Whewell, Rev. J. 

 Fisher, Rev. W. Webb, Rev. Vernon Harcourt, 

 Prof. Pritchard, Prof. Price, Rev. J. Barlow, and 

 Prof. Willis are all chiefly connected with 

 astronomy, physics, and mathematics ; the five 

 remaining names are those of the Rev. G. C. 

 Renouard, the geographer ; Bishop Wilberforce, 

 and the Rev. Dunbar Heath, of whom I have 

 already spoken ; the Rev. Dr. Nicholson, and 

 the Rev. Canon Greenwell : there is not a single 

 biologist among them. 



