British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist

John George Children. Lithograph by Miss Turner after B.R. Faulkner, 1826.

John George Children. Stipple engraving by W. Raddon, 1839, after E. U. Eddis.

John George Children. Lithograph by W. Drummond, 1835, after E. U. Eddis.

John George Children, F.R.S. (1777-1852) of the British Museum, mineralogist and reluctant Keeper of Zoology / A.E. Gunther.

The use of the blowpipe in chemical analysis, and in the examination of minerals / by J.J. Berzelius ; translated from the French of M. Fresnel, by J. G. Children. With a sketch of Berzelius' system of mineralogy; a synoptic table of the principal characters of the pure earths and metallic oxides before the blowpipe, and numerous notes and additions by the translator.

An address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Zoological Club of the Linnean Society / [J.G. Children].

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An address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Zoological Club of the Linnean Society / [J.G. Children].