[110a] A German writer has suggested that this position allows the musician to beat the drum with his head!
[110b] According to Mahillon, Catalogue iii., p. 377, to play the tabor and pipe is called in Provençal “tutupomponeyer.”
[115] Reprinted by permission of the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press from The Makers of British Botany.
[116a] In 1699 Newton was made Master of the Mint and appointed Whiston his deputy in the Lucasian Professorship, an office he finally resigned in 1703 (Brewster’s Life of Newton, 1831, p. 249).
[116b] “There, if anywhere, his dear shade must linger,” Trevelyan, Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (1 volume edit. 1881, p. 55).
[117] Black’s discovery of CO2, however, was published in 1754, seven years before Hales died, but Priestley’s, Cavendish’s and Lavoisier’s work on O and H was later.
[118a] 1837, III. p. 389.
[118b] Vegetable Staticks, p. 346.
[119] Sachs, Geschichte, p. 502. Malpighi held similar views.
[120] Sachs, Geschichte, p. 499.