Extracts from the Literary and Scientific Correspondence of Richard Richardson, M.D., F.R.S., of Bierley, Yorkshire: Illustrative of the State and Progress of Botany, and Interspersed with Information Respecting the Study of Antiquities and General Litera
Extracts from the Literary and Scientific Correspondence of Richard Richardson, M.D., F.R.S., of Bierley, Yorkshire: Illustrative of the State and Progress of Botany, and Interspersed with Information Respecting the Study of Antiquities and General Litera
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ... Loveday;2 and you will find mention of him in Hemingford, which I suppose you have receiv'd before this time. LETTER CXXVI. Dr. Short' to Dr. Richardson. Sheffield, July 5th, 1732. Dear And Worthy Sir, I have herewith sent my servant, who, under your eye, will examine all the waters in your ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ... Loveday;2 and you will find mention of him in Hemingford, which I suppose you have receiv'd before this time. LETTER CXXVI. Dr. Short' to Dr. Richardson. Sheffield, July 5th, 1732. Dear And Worthy Sir, I have herewith sent my servant, who, under your eye, will examine all the waters in your neighbourhood. Only see that he write a true account of their different colorations by the sundry 2 The Mr. Loveday here mentioned was John Loveday of Magdalen College, Esq., the same of whom Hearne speaks in his Preface to the Liber Niger Scaccarii, as, "Optima; spei juvenem lit--terarum et litteratorum amantissimum." He distinguished himself in after-life as a Scholar and an Antiquary; as well as by his attachment to the memory of Hearne, whose monument he restored in 1750, and respecting whom he addressed a letter to Bishop Tanner, contradicting the report of his having died a Catholic. 1 A full account of Dr. Short will be found in the Literary Anecdotes, i. p. 451.--It is here sufficient to say, that he was a native of Scotland, who settled at Sheffield, where he enjoyed considerable reputation and practice, and resided the greater part of his life, towards the close of which he retired to Rotherliam, and there died at an advanced age, November 2$th, 1772. His Natural, Experimental, and Medicinal History of the Mineral Waters of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire, in 2 vols. 4to., and his Medicina Britannica, both referred to in this Correspondence, appear to be his principal works. There are preserved among Dr. Richardson's papers, thirteen of his letters. T ingredients or mixtures used, and that he mark the bottles with the sediments right; but, to make the differences among the waters of the same Genus more obvious, let him get together...
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