172 -- - 378 The proportion in which the cultivators of different sciences appeared, was not easy to ascertain, because there were few amongst the more eminent who had not added to more than one branch of human knowledge.
The following table, though not professing to be very accurate, will afford, perhaps, a tolerably fair view:-- Geometers.............

11 Astronomers...........

5 Natural Philosophers.

23 -- 39 Mines............

5 Mineralogy ......