A.D. 1756
Dr. Samuel Johnson presented the account of Zachariah Williams’ attempt to ascertain the longitude at sea, which he had published under Williams’ name in the preceding year; and, as Warton noted257, he entered it with his own hand in the Library Catalogue. The entry is still to be seen, with a memorandum of its being in Johnson’s hand, in an interleaved, and now disused, copy of the Catalogue of 1738.
Notes
257 Boswell’s Life of Johnson, edit. 1835, vol. ii. p. 54.