The hand : its mechanism and vital endowments, as evincing design, and illustrating the power, wisdom, and goodness of God / by Sir Charles Bell.

  • Charles Bell
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1874
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Credit: The hand : its mechanism and vital endowments, as evincing design, and illustrating the power, wisdom, and goodness of God / by Sir Charles Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    NOTICE. The series of Treatises, of wliic]i tlie present is one, is published under the following circumstances: The Eight Honourable and Eeverend Francis Henry, Earl of Bridgewater, died in the month of February, 1829 ; and by his last Will and Testament, bearing date the 25th of February, 1825, he directed certain Trustees therein named to invest in the public funds the sum of Eight thousand pounds sterling; this sum, with the accruing dividends thereon, to be held at the disposal of the President, for the time being, of the Eoyal Society of London, to be paid to the person or persons nominated by him. The Testator further directed, that the person or persons selected by the said President should be appointed to write, print, and publish one thousand copies of a work On the Poiver, Wisdom, and Goodness of Ood, as manifested in the Creation ; illustrating such worh hy all reasonable arguments, as, for instance, the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetalle, and mineral kingdoms; the effect of digestion, and thereby of conversion ; the construction of the hand of man, and an infinite variety of other arguments; as also ly discoveries, ancient and modern, in arts, sciences, and the whole extent of literature. He desired, moreover, that the profits arising from the sale of the works so published should be paid to the authors of the works. The late President of the Eoyal Society, Davies Gilbert, Esq., requested the assistance of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury and of the Bishop of London, in determining upon the best mode of carrying into effect the intentions of the Testator.