Biographical Memoirs

Excerpt from Biographical Memoirs, Vol. 1 According to the rules of the National Academy of Sciences it is the duty of the President, upon the death of any member, to provide for the preparation of a biographical memoir of the deceased, by appointing some member to perform that duty, such memoir being subsequently read at a regular session of the Academy. By direction of the Academy the Home Secretary has collected the memoirs that have been so prepared to the close of 1876, and has published them in the present volume. Others will be printed from time to time, as they are delivered, and will ultimately be combined into similar volumes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.