The Portraiture of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal Society.

Abstract

Dr. Maddison dedicated his elegant collection of the portraiture of Robert Boyle to the late John Farquhar Fulton for whom Professor McKie has written a handsome word of tribute. This volume was originally printed in the September and December issue of the Annals of Science , in 1959. It was published as a separate book in March, 1962. A special order of scholarship is required to produce accurate iconography. It often represents in a way what very few other forms of literary scholarship even try to do, cumulating the fruit of the devoted and obsessive persistence of a lifetime. It cannot arise except as it is the result of painstaking search. Someone must seek out original material in all sorts of places. If the fact of such a search is widely known, many scholars not working on a particular problem directly may contribute useful lore or provide helpful suggestions and bits