. Science-gossip . ble him to finish certain drawingsand make others of new plants at Kew. Banks was a munificent patron of Science ratherthaTi a worker at detail, and if he ever intended topublish the full results of his collections, heabandoned the idea in 1782, on the death, by apoplexy, of his friend Dr. Solander. He hadup to then published comparatively little. Hismanuscripts are now in the botanical departmentof the British Museum. He was a man of , considerable energy, and much individualityof character; in fact he was nothing if notautocratic. Thomas Bewick (1753-1828). Of
. Science-gossip . ble him to finish certain drawingsand make others of new plants at Kew. Banks was a munificent patron of Science ratherthaTi a worker at detail, and if he ever intended topublish the full results of his collections, heabandoned the idea in 1782, on the death, by apoplexy, of his friend Dr. Solander. He hadup to then published comparatively little. Hismanuscripts are now in the botanical departmentof the British Museum. He was a man of , considerable energy, and much individualityof character; in fact he was nothing if notautocratic. Thomas Bewick (1753-1828). Of the three Bewicks, wood engravers, ThomasBewick is best known among naturalists as theartist of the interesting engra\ings that illustratehis books upon British Birds, which is his finestvrork, British Quadrupeds, and many was bom at Cherryburn House on the southernbank of the river Tjme, at Ovingham, Northumber-land. It was but a cottage, and his father wasJohn Bewick, small farmer and worker of a little. Thomas Bewick. colliery for local consumption of coal. Thomaswas the eldest of eight children b}- his fatherssecond wife, and John Bewick the other of thewood engravers of the family was the fifth ; therebeing five daughters and three sons. Thomas Bewick, who seems to have been a ladfull of pranks and innocent mischief, had verylittle education beyond what was locally availablein the village, but he early showed a natural talentfor drawing, and a deep love of nature. His firstattempts at wood engra\dng were copies of inn-signscut with his knife. Among the first of hisdrawings were some made with blackberr}^ this ended in his apprenticeship to RalphBeilby, at Newcastle-on-T^me, a goldsmith andseal-engraver. Here Thomas Bewick first receivedinstruction in drawing and engraving. Wood-engraving was then in England in a very lowcondition of art, but it fell to the lot of this youth. SCIENCE-GOSSIP. in later years, to revive the art in Britain. Evennow Bewicks p
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