An eulogy on John Coakley Lettsom ... late president of the Philosophical Society of London ... delivered before the Society, on Monday, Nov. the 20th 1815 / [Thomas Joseph Pettigrew].

  • Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph, 1791-1865.
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1816
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Credit: An eulogy on John Coakley Lettsom ... late president of the Philosophical Society of London ... delivered before the Society, on Monday, Nov. the 20th 1815 / [Thomas Joseph Pettigrew]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EULOGY, &c. AT the request of our late wortliy Pre¬ sident, made some few months ago, that should I survive him, I would, in conformity to the custom of the Institution, deliver an Oration on his Life and Character, I appear before you on the present melancholy occa¬ sion. At the solicitation of the Council also, that 1 would pronounce the Eulogium, I have undertaken the task : — a task at once both pleasing and painful: •— pleasing to my feel- B