[18] "There, if anywhere, his dear shade must linger," Trevelyan, Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, 1 volume edit. 1881, p. 55.

[19] 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.

[20] 1837, III. p. 389.

[21] Vegetable Staticks, p. 346.

[22] Sachs, Geschichte, p. 502. Malpighi held similar views.

[23] Ibid., p. 499.

[24] Quoted by Caröe, in his paper read before the Cambridge Archaeological Society on King's Hostel etc., and "Printed for the Master and Fellows of Trinity Coll." in 1909.

[25] He also held the living of Farringdon in Hampshire where he occasionally resided.

[26] Dict. Nat. Biog.

[27] With a certain idleness Pope reduces him to plain Parson Hale, for the sake of a rhyme in the Epistle of Martha Blount, 1. 198.