_Anecdote of the late Honourable Henry Cavendish._-- One Sunday evening he was standing at Sir Joseph Banks’s, in a crowded room, conversing with Mr. Hatchett, when Dr. Ingenhousz, who had a good deal of pomposity of manner, came up with an Austrian gentleman in his hand, and introduced him formally to Mr. Cavendish. He mentioned the titles and qualifications of his friend at great length, and said that he had been peculiarly anxious to be introduced to a philosopher so profound and so universally known and celebrated as Mr. Cavendish. As soon as Dr. Ingenhousz had finished, the Austrian gentleman began, and assured Mr. Cavendish, that his principal reason for coming to London was to see and converse with one of the greatest ornaments of the age, and one of the most illustrious philosophers that ever existed. To all these high-flown speeches Mr. Cavendish answered not a word; but stood with his eyes cast down, quite abashed and confounded. At last, seeing an opening in the crowd, he darted through it, with all the speed he was master of; nor did he stop till he reached his carriage, which drove him directly home. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ⁂ The Office of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge is at 59, Lincoln’s Inn Fields. LONDON:--CHARLES KNIGHT, PALL-MALL EAST. _Shopkeepers and Hawkers may be supplied Wholesale by the following Booksellers:--_ _London_, GROOMBRIDGE, Panyer Alley, Paternoster Row. _Bath_, SIMMS. _Birmingham_, DRAKE. _Bristol_, WESTLEY and Co. _Carlisle_, THURNAM; and SCOTT. _Derby_, WILKINS and SON. _Falmouth_, PHILIP. _Hull_, STEPHENSON. _Leeds_, BAINES and NEWSOME. _Lincoln_, BROOKE and SONS. _Liverpool_, WILLMER and SMITH. _Manchester_, ROBINSON; and WEBB and SIMMS. _Newcastle-upon-Tyne_, CHARNLEY. _Norwich_, JARROLD and SON. _Nottingham_, WRIGHT. _Sheffield_, RIDGE. _Dublin_, WAKEMAN. _Edinburgh_, OLIVER and BOYD. _Glasgow_, ATKINSON and Co. Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES, Stamford Street. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Notes This file uses _underscores_ to indicate italic text. New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain. Itemized changes from the original text: • p. 124: Added period after abbreviation “lbs.” in phrase “weighed, upon an average, about 700 lbs., yielding about 400 lbs. of meat.” • p. 125: Added period after phrase “Doubtless the most beautiful part of his body is the head.” • p. 126: Supplied missing letters in word “style” in phrase “in a natural and popular style.” • p. 126: Added period after phrase “the highest of the living artists of England.” • p. 128: Removed closing double quotation mark after phrase “under the various forms which characterize them.”