ssed to meet the point, while the charge against Bonner was
withdrawn. He died in the Marshalsea on the 5th of September 1569, and
was buried in St George's, Southwark, at midnight to avoid the risk of a
hostile demonstration.

See _Letters and Papers of Henry VIII._ vols. iv.-xx.; _Acts of the
Privy Council_ (1542-1569); _Lords' Journals_, vol. i.; Wilkins'
_Concilia_; Foxe's _Acts and Monuments_, ed. Townsend; Burnet, ed.
Pocock; Strype's Works; Gough's _Index to Parker Soc. Publ._; S.R.
Maitland's _Essays on the Ref._; Froude's and R.W. Dixon's
_Histories_; Pollard's _Cranmer_ and _England under Somerset_; other
authorities cited in _Dict. Nat. Biogr_. (A. F. P.)

BONNET, CHARLES (1720-1793), Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer,
was born at Geneva on the 13th of March 1720, of a French family driven
into Switzerland by the religious persecution in the 16th century. He
made law his profession, but his favourite pursuit was the study of
natural science. The account of the ant-lion in N.A. Pluche's _Spectacle
de la nature_, which he read in his sixteenth year, turned his attention
to insect life. He procured R.A.F. de Reaumur's work on insects, and
with the help of live specimens succeeded in adding many observations to
those of Reaumur and Pluche. In 1740 Bonnet communicated to the academy
of sciences a paper containing a series of experiments establishing what
is now termed parthenogenesis in _aphides_ or tree-lice, which obtained
for him the honour of being admitted a corresponding member of the
academy. In 1741 he began to study reproduction by fusion and the
regeneration of lost parts in the freshwater hydra and other animals;
and in the following year he discovered that the respiration of
caterpillars and butterflies is performed by pores, to which the name of
_stigmata_ has since been given. In 1743 he was admitted a fellow of the
Royal Society; and in the same year he became a doctor of laws--his last
act in connexion with a profession which had ever been distasteful to
him.

His first published work appeared in 1745, entitled _Traite
d'insectologie_, in which were collected his various discoveries
regarding insects, along with a preface on the development of germs and
the scale of organized beings. Botany, particularly the leaves of
plants, next attracted his attention; and after several years of
diligent study, rendered irksome by the increasing weakness of his
eyesight, he pub