David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ When I hardly believed I had the honour of being yet in your memory, you made me see that there I am in almost the same rank as the crowned heads and sovereign arbiters in polite literature, by regaling me with the same present which you offered to them, and which they have received so well. As yet I have been able only to run over your beautiful tables; but I have already been so much charmed with the distinctness both of the printing and of the matter, that when the binder has put them into shape, they will prove a most agreeable and constant recreation for my eyes and my mind. ”

“ Elie Bouhéreau was a scholar of no mean reputation. He was an intimate friend of the scholarly secretary of the French Academy, Valentine Conrart (born 1603, died 1675) , who may be said to have been the most accomplished and the most universally popular Huguenot of his own or any generation. When the erudite Monsieur Rou sent presentation copies of his Chronological Tables to the marked men of his time, Bouhéreau was on the list of recipients ”

“ Elie Bouhéreau was born at La Rochelle, where his father, Elie Bouhéreau, was pasteur in 1642. He was M.D. of the University of Orange, 29th August 1667, and after taking his degree, he travelled in Italy with his cousin, Elie Richard Bouhéreau. He settled in La Rochelle, and practised medicine, at the same time acting as an elder in his church, and studying various departments of literature. ”