[66] Lejoncourt, Galerie des centenaires, Paris, 1842, p. 96-98.
[67] Lejoncourt, op. cit., p. 101.
[68] Researches into the Physical History of Mankind, 1836, vol. i, p. 1157.
[69] I owe to the kindness of M. Chemin a memoir in which he has brought together the ancient and new records on the centenarians of all countries up to the end of the nineteenth century. M. Chemin was unable to find a publisher, but has given me his manuscript, extending to 182 pages.
[70] Ueber die Kunst d. Verlängerung d. mensch. Lebens, Bonn, 1890, p. 23.
[71] Physiologie générale, 1900, p. 381.
[72] Tableaux de la nature (French translation), 1808, vol. ii, p. 109.
[73] Webb and Berthelot, Histoire naturelle des îles Canaries, 1839, vol. i, part 2, pp. 97-98.
[74] Bibliothèque universelle de Genève, 1839, vol. xlvi, p. 387.
[75] Ibid., p. 392.