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CYCLOPÆDIA

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LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC

ANECDOTE;

ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE

CHARACTERS, HABITS, AND CONVERSATION OF
MEN OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE.

EDITED BY

WILLIAM KEDDIE,

SECRETARY TO THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GLASGOW.

LONDON AND GLASGOW :

PUBLISHED BY RICHARD GRIFFIN AND COMPANY.

1854.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM THE LIBRARY OF MRS. ELLEN HAVEN ROSS JUNE 28, 1938

GLASGOW:

W. G. BLACKIE AND CO., PRINTERS

VILLAFIELD.

PREFACE.

THE contents of the following pages have been culled from many sources, and embrace a great diversity of subjects. It has been the purpose of the compiler to combine useful information with innocent entertainment; to invite to the cultivation of literature and of science; to minister to refined tastes, and foster large intellectual sympathies. Whilst the volume aims at the gratification of a general class of readers, the interests of the young have been constantly kept in view in the selection, which, it is hoped, contains nothing, either in sentiment or expression, adverse to their moral and intellectual improvement.

The paucity of anecdotes, in the annals of science, possessed of personal interest, will account for the meagreness of this department of the collection, as compared with the amplitude and variety of the literary portion.

The subject of Art and Artists is deferred for another of the Cyclopædias projected by the Publishers.

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