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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. 
BORN. 
DIED. 
AGE. 
A. D. 
A. D. 
Ilubcr 
1750 
1831 
80 
Entomology. 
Le Vaillant 
1753 
1825 
71 
Ornithology. 
Bewick 
1753 
1828 
75 
Engraver on Wood. 
Lacepede 
1756 
1825 
68 
Ichthyology. 
Barclay 
1758 
1826 
67 
Compar. Anatomy. 
Latreille 
1762 
1832 
70 
Entomology. 
Ornithology, N.Amer. 
Wilson 
1766 
1813 
48 
Cuvier 
1769 
1832 
63 
Zoology, Comp. Anat, 
Humboldt 
1769 
General Science. 
Peron 
1775 
1810 
35 
Ent. Traveller, Zool. 
Raffles 
1781 
1826 
45 
Ent. Traveller, Zool. 
Burckhardt 
1784 
1817 
32 
Enterprising Traveller. 
Schomburgk 
1804 
Ent. Travel., Ichthyol. 
Of whom have attained 
to the Age of 
Between .... 
.00 Years 1 
80 and 90 3 
70 to 80 10 
60 to 70 12 
50 to 60 6 
40 to 50 4 
30 to 40 3 
39 Lives. 
The foregoing Table, whilst it may be useful as 
a reference, offers also an interesting and instructive 
picture to the zealous labourers in the vast field of 
Natural Knowledge. The Memoirs, fraught with 
biographical information, and rich in amusing anec- 
dotes, present, at the same time, the impressive 
fact of the “ good old age” to which so many of 
these worthies had arrived, — displaying the value of 
