Excerpt from The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick, Vol. 1 Sketch of the life and works of Dr John Woodward. His testamentary provisions. Arrival of his cabinets. A room constructed for their reception. Sedgwick's predecessors: Conyers Middleton; Charles Mason; John Michell; Samuel Ogden; Thomas Green; John Hailstone. Orders and regulations sanctioned in 1818. Pp. 166 - 198. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.