of the metatarsal bones of the hind legs. They were compared by Sir Everard with the bones of a skeleton of a Rhinoceros in the possession of Mr. Brookes, which is considered as belonging to the largest of the species ever seen in England. The fossil bones were mostly of a large size, though some of them belonged to a smaller animal. Several of them were analyzed by Mr. Brande. He found one specimen composed as follows "Phosphate of lime, sixty parts;-Carbo nate of lime, twenty-eight parts;—Animal matter, two parts;-Water, ten parts;-Total, one hundred parts. "The teeth as usual contained a greater proportion of phosphate of lime than the other bones. These bones were remarkably clean and perfect, and constitute the finest specimens of fossil bones ever found in this country." Sir Humphrey Davy, in a recent communication to the Royal Society, states, that he is of Mr. Farey's opinion, that falling stars are solid ignited masses, moving with great velocity, and are not gaseous meteors. Some very curious discoveries, highly interesting to the lovers of Natural History, have recently been communicated to the Royal Society, by Mr Todd, a medical gentleman, as the result of numerous experiments on the Torpedo, or Electrical Fish. Mr. Todd observes, that the shocks received from the animal were never sensible above the shoulder, and seldom above the joint: the intensity, also, of the shock bore no relation to the size of the fish, but an evident relation to its liveliness, and vice versa. The shock did not always follow the touch; but required a degree of irritation, such as pressing, prick ing, or squeezing the animal; whilst not unfrequently animals to appearance perfectly vivacious, suffered this irritation without discharging any shock whatever. But the most curious fact is, that when caught by the hand, they sometimes writhed and twisted about, endeavouring to extricate themselves by muscular exertion; and did not, until they found these means unavailing, attempt the exercise of their electrical powers: though in many instances they had recourse to that power in the first moment of coercion. It was also ascertained, by repeated experiments, putting two animals of equally apparent health, into vessels of water, drawing successive shocks from one, and suffering the other to remain quiescent, that the death of the animal was hastened by the abstraction of its electric Auid! Professor Leslie has discovered that decayed whin-stone or friable mould, thoroughly desiccated and reduced to a powder, has an absorbent power that will congeal water, by VOL. I. NO. III. the evaporation it promotes, under an exhausted receiver. It is stated, that Mr. T. Carter Galpin, a young man of Bridport, has invented an instrument which, in one second of time, gives the day of the month; the moon's age; ris ing and setting of the sun; the time of high water at Bridport harbour; the degree of the sign in which the sun is; the moon's southing; declination of the sun; moveable feasts; cycle of the moon; &c. exact for any number of years. FRANCE. factured by a chemist in Paris, of such A phosphorescent powder has been manupower, that an ounce phial filled with it, is and write. The night traveller has, therecapable of affording light sufficient to read fore, only to carry the phial along with him, and without any further trouble can be furnished with light whenever he chooses. "For at lished at Paris, the efficacy of flor. volatile M. Sage has lately stated, in a memoir pubalkali in cases of severe apoplexy. tunities of witnessing the efficacy of volatile least 40 years," says he, "I have had opporalkali taken internally, as an immediate remeappearance of the disease." dy for the apoplexy, if employed on the first M. DE PRADT, formerly Archbishop of Malines, has recently published an interesting work, On Colonies and the Existing Revolution in America.' He is in favour of their emancipation. ITALY. A fragment of the Consular Annals was found at Rome, on the 29th of March, in the ruins of the Temple of Castor. It corresponds with the tables that were found some time before, and deposited in the Capitol. They contain the names of eight of the Decemvirs, who were the authors of the twelve tables. The Gazette of Venice says, that a Venitian pretends to have discovered the means of impelling a vessel at sea, without the assistance of sails, steam, or oars. He also declares that the machine, of which he is the inventor, will have the advantage not less greater than the first, of securing the vessel from shipwreck. A paragraph dated Naples, April 5, mentions that very interesting discoveries had lately been made at Pompei. Near the temple, a rectangular public edifice, of 260 palms in length and 120 in breadth, with a portico of columns in the interior, has been discovered, and in it several remarkable pieces of statuary and other works of art. It is hoped that this enclosure may prove a productive mine of objects of art, 2 C GERMANY. M. Francois de Salingre, a chemist of Halverstadt, has discovered a mode of manufacturing an oil from cabbage seeds, superior to any vegetable oil now known. 1. It equals in point of yellow colour and purity the fin est oil in Provence. 2. It is inodorous, andhas the taste of almonds, which distinguishes it from the oil of rape seed. 3. It may be substituted for olive oil in sallads, and for other domestic uses. 4. When used as lamp oil, it gives a bright flame without smoke. It is also very economical-a given quantity will be consumed much more slowly than the same quantity of rape oil within the same time. It is well known that the deeper we pene trate into the earth, the greater is the warmth. At Frieberg, they pretend to have calculated that this increase of warmth amounts to one degree of the thermometer for 150 feet, from which it is inferred, that at the depth of 50 German, (225 English) miles iron must melt and the interior of the earth be a sea of liquid fire. Mr. Henz, an eminent tanner of Srzensk, in Poland, has ascertained that the leaves of the oak are equal to the bark in tanning leather, provided they are used in the month of September, when they possess the bitter sap, which they afterwards lose. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Some persons employed by the Hon. Mark L. Hill, to make improvements on his farm at Phipsburg, situated at the mouth of Kennebec river, whereon are to be seen the remains of the ancient fort built by Sir George Popham in 1607, found, in May last, about 16 inches under the surface of the earth, an axe, which unquestiona bly has lain there 210 years; because those of Popham's party, who survived the incle. ment winter of 1607-8, returned in their ships to England, in May, 1608, and there has been no dwelling house, or person who has lived at, or near the site of this ancient fort since. This axe, being probably the oldest manufactured article known in this part of the country, has been presented by Mr. Hill to the Antiquarian Society, It appears, by several of the English periodical publications, lately received in this city, that Captain Riley's Narrative is in the press, and will soon be published in London, in a quarto form. J. Eastburn & Co. of New-York, have issued proposals for re-publishing by subscripthe Arts," a work of great erudition and tion The Quarterly Journal of Science and much interest, edited originally at the Royal Society of Great Britain, by William Thomas Brande, Esq. F. R. S. L. and E. B. and others. The publication is to commence in August next. the artillery, has for some time been engaged, We understand that Captain O'Connor, of by order of the War Department, in translating from the French a celebrated Treatise on the Science of War and Fortification, originally composed by order of the Emperor Napoleon for the use of the students of the Imperial Polytechnic and Military Schools of France. This Work embraces the whole Science of War, and Field and Permanent Fortification, with all the modern inventions and improvements in the latter branches; and in France is universally used by the military, and is esteemed beyond all other productions on the subjects, being considered a masterpiece. We learn that the Translation is completed, and will shortly be publish ed for the use of the Cadets of the United States' Military Academy. E. ART. 7. REVIEW AND REGISTER OF THE FINE ARTS. PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS. AT President-John Trumbull. Vice Presi an election for president and direc- dent-Jolin R. Murray. Directors-Cadwaltors of the Pennsylvania Academy of lader D. Colden, William Cutting, John G. Fine Arts, held at the Academy on Monday Bogert, David Hosack, Archibald Bruce, the second of June instant, the following gen- Archibald Robertson, Benj. W. Rogers, Wiltlemen were chosen, viz:-President-Joseph liam Dunlap, John Mc Comb, Saml. L. WalHopkinson. Directors-William Tilghman, do, James Renwick. Treasurer-John PinEdward Pennington, William Meredith, William Rush, Plunket F. Glentworth, James Gibson, Zaccheus Collins, Thomas CadwaJader, John Vaughan, Griffith Evans, Thomas Sully, Joseph Allen Smith. AMERICAN ACADEMY OF THE EINE ARTS. The following gentlemen have been elected Officers of the American Academy of the Fine Arts for the year 1817-viz. . tard. Secretary-Alex. Robertson. Keeper and Librarian-William Dunlap. Academicians-John Trumbull, William S. Leney, John Mc Comb, John I. Holland, Sam!. L. Waldo, William Dunlap, Peter Maverick, John Dixey, Archibald Robertson, Alexander Robertson, A. Anderson, William Rollinson, G.. B. Brown, A. Dickinson, John Vanderlyn, J. O. Donnell, Second Exhibition of the American Academy of conscious that on the common act of hospitality the Fine Arts. The last mentioned painter (Omeganck) is still living, an ornament to his country, and perhaps the best painter of animals, particularly sheep, which the world possesses. His Landscape is likewise uncommonly fine. The keeper of the Musee de France, when asked why there was no picture of Omeganck in the Exhibition, replied, that in tenderness to him as a living artist, they would not injure him by comparison Omeganck has since visited the Museum in person, as one of the Commissioners appointed by the King of Holland to reclaim the pictures plundered by the Emperor of the French. No. 19. Battle of Cavalry.-Breydel. In a space whose utmost length is 6 inches, and breadth 5, the painter has represented an extensive plain, on which, and under the walls of a Castle, large bodies of Cavalry are mingled in bloody strife. The composition, drawing, colouring, and touch, show the hand of a mas ter. No. 20. Portrait of a Lady.-W. Dunlap. This is a half length of a lady, sitting, and leaning her head on one hand, while the other rests easily on her silk drapery. There is much truth in the composition. No. 21. Mary Magdalen. W. DUNLAP. A spirited sketch, the parts most finished make us wish that equal labour had been bestowed on the whole. No. 22. Landscape.- RUYSDAL. This is a jewel. There were two painters of the name of Ruisdaal, (for with all due deference to the Librarian of the Academy, so we believe the name is spelt,) James and Solomon. The works of the first are valued by Le Brun and by De Burtin at 8000 livres; the second at 1720. James Ruisdaal, whose landscape we believe this to be, was distinguished for his knowledge of nature and of the effect of light and shade. His master was the celebrated Everdingen. No. 23. Christ on the Mount of Olives.W. DUNLAP. No. 24. Infant St. John. No. 25. Battle of Cavalry.-BREYDEL. Still more beautiful than its companion, No. 19. The principal Horse and Man are very fine. No. 26. Flemish Scene. No. 27. Flemish Card Party. No. 28. Rebekah at the Well.-W. ALSTON. This charming picture is painted subsequently to the large picture of the resuscitation of the dead man on touching the bones of the prophet, which established the reputation of Mr. Alston. This last we have not seen. No. 28 does great honour to its author. The lovely Rebekah, un she is performing, an act so congenial to her sex, and No. 29. An old Woman and little Girl bý fire-light.-W. Jewitt. Mr. Jewitt, quite a young Artist, has succeeded admirably in representing the effect of firelight, upon two figures well contrasted and happily imitated from nature. Nc. 30. A Storm at Sea. An admirable picture, and deserving of a better place. No. 31. Portrait of G. Clarke, Esq.-S. L. WALDO. No. 32. Female half length.-Painted by PARIS BOURDON, the pupil and rival of Titian. This is the finest specimen of colouring in the Gallery; we know of none so fine on this side the Atlantic. It is a model for every Artist to study, for colouring, but not for composition or design. It was in colouring alone that Bourdon (or Bourdone) was the rival of the prince of colourists. No. 33.--Portrait of a Gentleman.-S. L. WALDO. No. 34. La Madonna dell Gallo,-Copied from Barocci by Tompkins. This beautiful little picture represents a Holy Family, the attention of the children occupied by a cat. It is difficult to imagine any thing more true to nature. Barocci was born at Urbino in 1528, and painted most of his great pictures at Rome. No. 35. Study for the Woman taken in Adultery.-J. TRUMBULL. The large picture was exhibited last Fall, and is, in our opinion, the most perfect of the life-size compositions of Mr. Trumbull. It has the "Bon choix, bien rendu" of the French Connoisseurs. It is a picture which will remind alre : beholder of Corregio.* The study is in itself a carefully painted and beautiful picture, principally differing from the large picture, in having the woman's drapery white. No. 36. Holy Family, with Eleazer and St. John.-J. TRUMBULL. A picture of uncommon beauty, evincing a knowledge of all the parts which belong to this enchanting and very difficult art. The St. John is perhaps the finest part of the composition. No. 37. Study for our Saviour with little Children.-J. TRUMBULL. As the picture itself is in this exhibition, and is much improved upon the study, we will reserve our remarks until we reach its number. No. 38. The Virgin and Child, Elizabeth and St. John.-Copied from ANDREA DEL SARTO by Tompkins. This is a pendant to No. 34, but though the name of Andrea del Sarto stands higher than that of Barocci, few beholders but will prefer the picture of the latter here exhibited to that of the former. Andrea del Sarto (whose real name was Vanucchi) was born at Florence in 1488. His character of design is learning and simplicity, both of which may be seen in this picture, but there is likewise severity and hardness. No. 39. Portrait of the Marquis de la Fay ette. Very bad. No. 40. An old Man. CuYP. A head of merit, whether by Cuyp or not. No. 41. The Archangel Michael preparing to enchain Satan. Revelations, chap. 12 and 20. A sketch in Fresco.-ARCHD. ROBERT SON. Many of our readers will remember a fine engraving of this picture, in the "Florence Gallery." Unfortunately the painting has been so abused as to diminish the satisfaction of the beholder, and almost to destroy the impression which would otherwise be made by the work of so great a master. The composition is grand, the massing of light and shade, equally so, and the drawing beautifully correct; but we have only the remains of the colouring of one of the great colourists of the Venetian school. Paolo Cagliari (called Veronese, from the place of his birth) lived from 1530 to 1588; he distinguished himself by many great pictures, but particularly * The recurrence of this name reminds us of an error in the printing of the remarks, on No. 3, where 1553, should be read for 1253. The subject of this picture is from one of Metasis's Operas. It is an object of great importance for the painter to choose a subject generally known, and generally interesting. We are here attracted by the size of the picture, figures as large as life, and the general tone of the colouring, but the eye, after dwelling a short time on some parts of unquestionable beauty, particularly in the landscape, turns away unsatisfied. The drawing of Constantia's face is very bad. No. 47. Landscape. Moses striking the Rock. No. 48. of George Washington.-G. STEwart. We are always delighted by the magic of Stewart's pencil. This is either the copy or the original of the picture painted for Lord Lansdown, from which the engraving was made by Heath. We have seen a full length portrait of Washington, by Stewart, giving another view of the face ferable to this. It is in the possession of Peter and another attitude, beyond all comparison preJay Munroe, Esq. We lament that the engrav ing had not been made from Mr. Munroe's, rather than Lord Lansdown's picture. It is not only a better picture, but it is much more like the person and face of Washington. In No. 52, a disagreeable protuberance of the under lip may be observed, and a deficiency of chin very unfavourable to the physiognomy. No. 53. Italian Ruins.-Allport. No 55. Landscape, with hunters and hounds. There were three eminent painters of the name of Maes (or Maas) Dirk, Arnold, and Nicholas. This, if from the hand of either, is painted by Dirk Maas, who was born at Haerlem in 1656, and at the best period of his practice excelled in Battles, Chases, and Cavalcades, giving his horses with great truth and force. No. 56. Venus and Vulcan. Nos. 58, 59, 60. Portraits.-WRIGHT of DERBY. No. 61. A Mother caressing her Infantcopied from Titian by a very eminent British Artist. This we presume is given as sent in. No. 62. Michael and the Fallen Angelscopied from RUBENS. This is undoubtedly a copy from Rubens, though not by a very eminent artist, but even a copy from Rubens affords delight and instruction. No. 63. A portrait of a Child—“ I am so big."-ARCHD. ROBERTSON. No. 64. View of the Falls of Yantick River, at Norwich, Connecticut. J. TRUMBULL. Charming scenery well painted. No. 69. Portrait of a Lady. Copley. This is a production of Mr. Copley's, before he had seen the works or received the instructions of any master in the art. John Singleton Copley, one of the men who have made the United States to be considered as the birth place of painters, was born in Boston, Massachusetts. After leaving his native country, then an English province, he fixed his residence in London, and soon attained a high rank in his profession. His pictures of the Death of Lord Chatham, Death of Major Pierson, Youth rescued from a Shark, and Destruction of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, are most known from having been engraved. The portrait under consideration has much to be admired, and will afford useful hints to young portrait paint ers. Nos. 70 and 71. Views in Amsterdam. THEIRFS. No. 72. Landscape. No. 73. Landscape. VAUREGEMORTEL. No. 74. Fruit Piece. Mrs. ROBERTSON. No. 75. Woman buying Vegetables. VAN DERPOOL. No. 76. Scene from Rokeby. ALLPORT. No. 77. Man buying Game. VANDERPOOL. same merits. No. 85. Fruit. Mrs. ROBERTSON. No. 86. Landscape. BOURGUIN. A highly finished and beautiful composition. No. 87. A Female head in Crayons. No. 88. Landscape. BOURGUIN. The companion to No. 86, and still more beautiful, though it lacks the well touched figures of the first. No. 89. Landscape with Figures. No. 90. Magdalen. HERRYNS. This is a very bad copy of a picture of the great Corregio's. We have seen a mezzotinto print from Corregio's picture, possessing much more of the beauty of the original than this painting can boast. No. 91. Landscape and Figures. A com panion to No. 89. No. 92. Landscape. MAZZARA. No. 93. Asiatic Justice. If we mistake not, this, instead of an Asiatic Justice, is the Lord of the Vineyard paying off his labourers, from the parable. No. 94. Landscape. MAZZARA. No. 95. Hebe. A Drawing. Mrs. Ro BERTSON. No.96. Landscape. No. 97-is missing. No. 98. Travellers and Cross. There is no painter's name given in the Catalogue, but it is said to be by Ferdinand Bol, a distinguished Artist, born at Dort, in 1611. It is certainly a well painted head. No. 100. Lear. B. WEST. Here we have before us one of the best pictures of the greatest Historical Painter of the eighteenth century, Benjamin West, of Pennsylvania. This great Artist was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1738. At the age of 22, after having been 14 years employed in teaching himself to paint, and a part of that time practising |