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LIST OF PERSONS EMINENT IN SCIENCE OK AKT. 1SG0. 



"William BpBWCB, Entomologist, F.E.S., F.L.S., who, in conjunction with the 

 Rev. Mr. Kirby, M.A., wrote thecelebrated Introduction to Entomology, 

 the seventh edition of which appeared in ls.Ki: in the Appendix is re- 

 printed, from Mr. Freeman's Lyfe qf Mr. Kirby, a Bketch of the history of 

 the friendship of the two authors lor nearly half a century, and of the origin 

 and progress of the Introduction to Entomology. The Brst volume of the work 

 appeared in 1815; the third and concluding volume (the fourth) in 1S2G. It 

 quickly became a standard authority, and has done more than any other 

 work in diffusing a taste for Entomology throughout Great Britain. 



Colonel "William Martin Leake, Geographer. 



George Kobbbtb, of Lyme Regis. He w rote the St>ci;il History of the People of 

 the Southern Counties qf England; and compiled a serviceable Geological 

 Dictionary. 



Dr. Robekt Bkntley Toss, late Professor of Physiology at King's College, and 

 Physician to the Hospital. In conjunction \Mtii Dr. Grant, the Professor of 

 Coin pn-ative Anatomy a I University College, Dr. Todd commenced editing tlu> 

 Cyclnj.,r,!i,i qf Anatomy and Physiology, a gigantic work, which has ordjj just 

 reached its concluding part. Biaayof the articles were from his own pen. 

 lie also, afterwards, joined his distinguished pupil, Mr, Bowman, in the pro. 

 duction of The Physiological Anatomy tjf Man. On the opening of King's 

 College Hospital, which largely owed its existence to his exert ion?, Dr. Todd 

 was appointed Physician and Professor of Clinical Medicine. Here, at the bed- 

 side of the patient, he applied his physiological knowledge to the explanation 

 of the nature and the treatment of disease. A large number of his lectures 

 has been reported in the medical journals, and a collection of these lectures, 

 on Diseases of the Brain and Nervous System, and on othi i subj cte, lias 

 been recently published. He also wrote ■ work in the early pari of his 

 career on Gout, SheumaHe Fever, and Chronic Kheumatiem qf the Joints. 

 He was also a contributor to the Transactions of the Medico-Chintrgical 

 Society, and of independent papers to the medical journals. Few men baye 

 Oiled a larger space in contemporary medical literature. — Athentrum, Ho. 

 1658. 



Dr. Edwarii Bevan, author of The Money Bee; it> Natural History, Physiology, 

 and Management, 1^27 . This work at once attracted the attention of all 



engaged in the culture of bees, and lias since gone through ten era! editions. 

 He also wrote a paper on the h ies, which appeared in the 



tii>t volume of the Magazine qf Zoology wed Botany. From the year 1840 



he took up his residence at Hereford; and, as a] if of the esteem in which 



he "as i,, Id, a local paper states that, on th great Bood in the. 



Wye, in 1862, washing away all the Doctor 's bee-hives and their inhab 

 ■ public subscription was raised, and a new apiary i recked Ear him, free of 

 all expense. 



■\1 us. ,i , m i v,,s , He accomplished writer ou Art. 



Gbobc.k Si ii i i.i , artist. 



Abthub ScHopsniLAun, German philosopher. 



Db.Thi ib,1 tor-General. His eminent services in the! 



are thus sketched bj a biographer in the Times:- "At the Alma his tender- 

 itible endurance, and noble devotion in the most terrible 



trial to which a surgeon, overwhel d with calls on powi rs, and 



l rK provided with the means of rokf, coi ecially 



remarkable, At [nkerman, for hour after hour, daj after day, he toiled 

 through scenes which those who have not witnessed a battlefield and tha 



terrors of the hoepits] tentt can never i pi • oonoeive, upheld by the 



noblest sense of duti ; and many men now alive inn bear witness to tha 



In roir calm and skill which saved life and limb lor tin in, utid the prodigality 



ire be besto w ed on others, > rerythins but bis isu red di 



In Lord Bs rving to be most honour. 



in Lord Kagian s despatcn in- is described a- deserving to i»- most t>. 

 iii.lv mentioned,' All through tin- winter in- never 1< it Lis post— nay, 



more, 



