Excerpt from Sir Joshua Fitch: An Account of His Life and Work It is to Sir Joshua Fitch himself that I owe it if I have at all succeeded in conveying what he was and what he did. Though I had long known him through his writings, it was only during the last three years of his life that I knew him personally. Durin those years we met frequently, and I learne to know and to value his controlled enthusiasm, his moderating temper, his shrewd and penetrating judgment. I have not read for the purposes of this memoir a single line of a report or an article written by him without feeling in it and through it the spirit of the man I knew and honoured. 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.