- covered was certainly very considerable, amounting
to not less than 1356 species, of which the far greater number naturally arranged themselves under the 673 genera which he had previously established, while for the remainder he created 25 new genera, but no new class. The rest of Tournefort's life was spent in preparing the account of his travels for the press, but he did not live to see their publication. A blow in the breast, which he accidentally received, reduced him to a languishing and weak condition, and hastened his death, which took place on the 28th of December, 1708. His travels, printed at the Louvre, appeared shortly afterward in two volumes quarto, and have always maintained a considerable reputation.
DR. THOMAS SHAW.
Born 1692—Died 1751.
This curious and learned traveller was the son of
Mr. Gabriel Shaw, of Kendal, in Westmoreland,
where he was born in the year 1692. The first
rudiments of his education, which appears to have
been carefully conducted, he received at the grammar-*school
of his native town, from whence, in
1711, he removed to Queen's College, Oxford.
Here he took the degree of B.A. in 1716, and that
of M.A. three years after. In the course of the
same year he went into orders, and was appointed
chaplain to the English factory at Algiers. As he
has left no account of the mode in which he reached
the point of destination, it is uncertain whether he
proceeded to Africa wholly by sea, or performed a
portion of the journey by land; but as it is certain
that he was in Italy, where, among other places, he
