MEMOIRS
OF THE
DISTINGUISHED MEN OF SCIENCE
OF GREAT BRITAIN
LIVING IN THE YEARS 1807-8.
AND APPENDIX.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
ROBERT HUNT, F.R.S., &c.
COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY
WILLIAM WALKER, JUNIOR.
Second Edition.
"The evil, that men do, lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones."
Shakspeare.
LONDON:
E. & F. N. SPON, 16, BUCKLERSBURY.
1864.
LONDON:
W. DAVY AND SON, PRINTERS, GILBERT STREET,
OXFORD STREET, W.