The year book of daily recreation and information concerning remarkable men and manners, times and seasons, solemnities and merry-makings, antiquities and novelties on the plan of the 'Every-day book and table book.' / By William Hone.

  • William Hone
Date:
1838
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Credit: The year book of daily recreation and information concerning remarkable men and manners, times and seasons, solemnities and merry-makings, antiquities and novelties on the plan of the 'Every-day book and table book.' / By William Hone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    prising monument of his great learning and indefatigable research was printed in 1665: the first appeared, afterwards, in 1666, and the third in 1670. Most of the copies of the first two volumes of this great and invaluable work were burnt by the fire of London in 1666: it is said that of the first volume only twenty-three copies were saved. A set of the 3 volumes com- plete is exceedingly rare, and worth nine- ty ora hundred guineas. ticulars concerning himself, are in Wood’s “ Athene Oxoniensis.” An ac- count of him’is in the late Mr. Hargrave’s preface to his edition of Hale on Parlia- ments. Prynne’s ardor in writing was intense. Wood says “his custom was to put on a long quilted cap, which came an inch over his eyes, serving as an umbrella to defend them from too much light ; and seldom eating a dinner, he would every three hours or more be munching a roll of bread, and refresh his exhausted spirits with ale.” He was born in 1606 and died in 1669; and, supposing that he com- menced authorship in arriving at man’s es- tate, he is computed to have written a sheet a day * - hm, January 10.—Day breaks 5 55 Sun-rises hs) 95° 'F 7 — sets 9. . 4°.3 Twilight ends 6803 Linnets congregate. ————SSaeees PFanuaryp 11. 1753 Sir Hans Sloane, a celebrated physician and botanist, died at the age of 93. He was a native of Killileagh in the been elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and admitted a member of the College of physicians, he embarked in 1687 for Jamacia, as physician to the duke of Al- bemarle, and returned with eight hundred unknown plants, acd a proportional num- ber of new specimens of the animal king- dom. These he collected in so short a time that his French eulogist says he seem- ed to have converted minutes into hours. He was the first learned man whom science had tempted from England to that dis- tant quarter of the globe. On returning * Hume. Calamities of Authors. Granger, Seward. Pepys. in May 1689, and, settling in London, he became eminent in his profession, and in 1694 was elected physician to Christ’s Hos- pital, which office he filled till, compelled by infirmity, he resigned it in 1730. In 1693 he was elected secretary to the Royal Society, and revived the publication of the “ Philosophical Transactions,” which had been discontinued from 1687. He was succeeded in this office by Dr. Halley in 1712, about which time he actively promoted a “ Dispensary” for the poor, which was at length established, and ridi- culed by Dr. Garth in a once celebrated satire bearing that title. In 1702 Sloane was incorporated doctor of physic at Ox- ford, and became an associated member of several Academies on the continent. In 1708, during a war with France, he was elected member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, as a compliment of high distinction to his eminent science. Queen tended her in her last illness, and on the accession of George I. he was created baronet, which was the first hereditary honor conferred in England on a physi- cian. He also received the appointment of physician general to the army, which he held tilt 1727, when he was made physi- cian to George II., and, being honored with the confidence of Queen Caroline, pre- scribed for the royal family till his death. In 1719 he was elected president of the death of Sir Isaac Newton, in 1727, was chosen president of the Royal Society. illustrious scientific bodies of the kingdom, he learnedly and liberally promoted the objects of each. | Sir Hans Sloane had begun early in life to form a museum, and he spared no ex- pence in continually storing it with the rarest and-most remarkable specimens in botany and other departments of natural history, and with useful and curious works of art and science. These acquirements, tions he made during his short voyage to to the West Indies, enabled him to pub- lish his Natural History of Madeira, Bar- badoes, and other West India Islands, with an account of his voyage, in two folio volumes, which was productive of great benefit to science, and excited emulation to similar pursuits both in England and abroad. From a catalogue in this work, 1725, contained more than 26,200 sub- ae,