Category: Biographies
Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History
had a lamentable spectacle of Malpighi's house all in flames, occasioned by the negligence of his old wife. All his pictures, furniture, books, and manuscripts, were burnt. I saw him in the very heat of the calamity, and methought I never beheld so much Christian patience and...