SIR GILBERT BLANE.-Rev. Figures, &c. The last Coronation medal, representing profiles of King William and Queen Adelaide, was by Mr. Wyon, and has for its workmanship been generally admired; but we trust the next will have a design appropriate to the occasion, in which respect Pistrucci's must be preferred to Mr. Wyon's, though we think his design may be easily excelled. In the English Bijou Almanac for 1838, lume measuring less than an inch square TO L. E. L. By John A. Heraud, Esq. Sappho of a polish'd age! Loves and graces sweetly fling Sad is now thy plaintive strain, For Cheerfulness befits the good. Yet if thou be sad-'tis well! 73 The Comic Almanack for 1838 is as whimsical and droll as any of its predecessors. Though it has wholly failed in its attempt to laugh Francis Moore out of the field, it fully maintains its own domain of fun and humour. There is much Hood-ish talent in the prose and verse; and the talents of George Cruikshank in the etchings of the Months are as fresh as ever. The miniature silhouette illustrations of what used to be called redletter days are exceedingly effective. FINE ARTS. PANORAMA OF NEW ZEALAND, Mr. Burford has produced another pleasing Panorama, representing the Bay of Islands in New Zealand. It commences with Paihia, or Marsden's Vale, and extends to Karakara Bay in the distance. Several residences of Europeans, and ships and canoes in the Bay, add to the interest. The foreground is bold and clear, with several interesting groups. The Rev. S. Marsden, senior chaplain of New South Wales, and founder of the New Zealand Mission, is seen addressing a group of natives. Several native chiefs are portrayed, with groups of dancers, &c. The whole is exceedingly cleverly painted, and GENT. MAG. VOL. IX. is likely to prove attractive. Over the entrance of the room is a large piece of New Zealand carving, the resemblance of which to old Anglo-Saxon work is very striking. Views of Ports and Harbours, Watering-places, Fishing Villages, and other picturesque objects on the English Coast. Engraved by William and Edward Finden, from paintings by J. D. Harding, G. Balmer, E. W. Cooke, T. Creswick, and other eminent artists. Parts iii-x. 4to.-This very beautiful work is brought to a close, in one volume, which may enter without fear into a competition with the many L splendid picture-books which grace the present season of the year. It comprises a series of fifty engravings; and includes the great naval stations of Chatham, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, the ports of Berwick, Shields, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sunderland, Whitby, Hull, Yarmouth, Ramsgate, and Southampton; the watering places of Scarborough, Hastings, Brighton, and Weymouth; the smaller towns and villages of Tynemouth, Burlington, Hartlepool, Cromer, Harwich, Folkstone, Cowes, Sidmouth, Exmouth, and others. It has been the chief object of the artists to give faithful representations of the places delineated, not overstepping the modesty of nature with false or meritricious ornaments; and while that laudable intention has been maintained, there is throughout the work sufficient proof that the English coast abounds in picturesque scenery which requires no aid from the imagination of the painter. To the taste, the spirit, and the beauty of these views we have before borne testimony; and the style in which they have been engraved is scarcely to be surpassed. 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Read: 1. Magnetical Observations made in the West Indies, on the Coast of Brazil, and North America, in the years 1834, 1835, 1836, and 1837; by Sir James Everard Home, Bart. C.R.N., the Observations reduced by the Rev. George Fisher, M.A. 2. On Low Fogs and Stationary Clouds; by William Kelly, M.D. Nov. 30. The Anniversary meeting was held, and Mr. Baily took the chair, the Duke of Sussex being absent, in consequence of the injury done to the cap of his knee by a recent fall at the House of Lords. However, an excellent address, on the part of his Royal Highness, was read to the members. It stated that Her Majesty had become the Patroness of the Society; had signed her royal name in the Register, and had declared her intention of continuing the grant of the two annual medals made by her two predecessors. One of the Royal medals of the present year has been assigned to the Rev. William Whewell, for his very important series of researches upon the Tides. It is now three years since the Royal medal was adjudged to Mr. Lubbock for his investigations on that subject, and the council have availed themselves of the first opportunity presented by the recurrence of the cycle of the subjects which are successively entitled to the royal medals, to make a similar award to his colleagues and fellow-labourer. The second Royal medal for the present year has not been awarded. It was proposed that it should be given to the best memoir presented to the Society between the years 1834 and 1837, containing contributions towards a system of Geological Chronology, founded upon an examination of Fossil Remains and their attendant phenomena; but no such memoir has been received. The Copley medals were awarded, the one to M. Becquerel, for his various memoirs on the subject of Electricity, published in the Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France, and the other to John Frederick Daniell, esq. Professor of Chemistry in King's College, London, for his two papers on Voltaic Combinations, published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1836. The President further stated, that in the course of the year he had received a letter from the celebrated Baron de Homboldt, expressing a wish that Magnetical Observations, upon a uniform plan, might be established in this country and its colonies, with a view of making simultaneous observations with those which are now in progress to be made, in different parts of the continent of Europe and of Northern Asia. A Committee of the Council of the Society was in consequence formed; and a very elaborate Report was made by the Astronomer Royal and Mr. Christie in November last, enumerating many important consequences which might result from such a system of observations, and pointing out a series of stations where they might most efficiently be made. Measures are now in progress for the accomplishment of all these objects: a Magnetical Observatory, which was long contemplated and earnestly recommended by the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory, has been established at Greenwich, in a situation so remote from all other buildings, as to be altogether free, even from the suspicion of external disturbances. The Corps of Royal Engineers has spontaneously offered to conduct the requisite observations, in whatever quarter of the globe they may be stationed; the Astronomer Royal has determined the species of observations to be made, and the character and construction of the instruments to be used; and the Lords of the Treasury have placed at the disposal of the Royal Society the requisite funds for their purchase. Mr. Children, one of the Secretaries, and Mr. König, the Foreign Secretary, have retired from their offices, in consequence of the increasing duties which have been imposed upon them by recent regulations at the British Museum, having been deemed by them incompatible with those which they owed to the Society. The elections of the present year were as follow : President.-H.R. H. the Duke of Sussex, K.G. Treasurer.-Francis Baily, esq. V.P. Secretaries.-Peter Mark Roget, M.D. Sam. Hunter Christie, esq. Foreign Secretary.-Wm. Henry Smyth, Capt. R.N. Other Members of the Council.-John Bostock, M.D., The Earl of Burlington, V.P., J. G. Children, esq. V.P., John Fred. Daniell, esq., Sir P. de M. G. Egerton, bart., Davies Gilbert, esq. D.C.L., V.P., Charles König, esq., The Marquis of Northampton, V.P., Rev. George Peacock, M.A., W. H. Pepys, esq., S. P. Rigaud, esq. M.A., V.P., J. F. Royle, M.D., Benj. Travers, esq., James Walker, esq., Charles Wheatstone, esq., Rev. W. Whewell, M.A.-[The names in Italics were not members of the last Council.] Dec. 7. The meeting was entirely occupied by a re-perusal of the President's anniversary address. Dec. 14. J. G. Children, esq. V.P. The reading of the paper by Dr. Kelly, "On Fogs and Stationary Clouds," commenced at a former meeting, was resumed and concluded; and two other papers were read, 1. On such Ellipsoids, consisting of homogeneous matter, as are capable of having the resultant of the attraction of the mass upon a particle in the surface, and a centrifugal force caused by revolving about one of the axes made perpendicular to the surface, by James Ivory, esq. K.H. M.A. 2. On the colours of mixed plates, by Sir David Brewster, K.H. Dec. 21. Mr. Baily in the chair. The 11th series of researches in Electricity, by Prof. Faraday, F. R.S. was read to the meeting. Adjourned to Jan. 11. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Nov. 1. Read, 1. On the remains of Fishes in the Coal-field of Lancashire, by Mr. Williamson; 2. On the geology of the island of Zante, by H. C. Strickland, esq. F.G.S.; 3. On the formation of Mould, by C. Darwin, esq. F.G.S. Nov. 15. Read, 1. A letter from W.C. Trevelyan, esq. describing first, some indications of an elevation of land in the Channel islands; secondly, a similar fact on the coast of Jutland (indicated by the absence of ancient sepulchral tumuli in the extensive lower tract of land bordering on the sea); and thirdly, a notice of some extensive tertiary (pleiocene) beds near Porto d'Anzio, the ancient Antium; 2. a description of strata found in sinking a well at St. Peter's in Jersey, by Mr. Edge; and 3, part of a paper, on the Fossils of the eastern portion of the Great Basaltic District of India, by J. Malcolmson, esq. F.G.S. STATISTICAL SOCIETY. Nov. 20. Read, an account of the proceedings of the Statistical Section of the British Association, at the meeting at Liverpool, by R. W. Rawson, esq., and a statistical account of the turn-out of the silkweavers and other operatives at Derby, in 1833-4, by William Felkin, esq. of Nottingham. ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHI- Dec. 4. The Institute held its first public meeting of the session 1837-8, at its new rooms in Lower Grosvenor-street. J. B. Papworth, esq. V.P. in the chair, opened the meeting with some preliminary observations, occasioned by the change of the apartments, and congratulated the members on the prospects of the Institute; a letter was then read from Lord Melbourne to the President, Earl de Grey, announcing that Her Majesty had graciously consented to become the Patroness of the Institute. The Duke of Sutherland was elected an Honorary Fellow. Mr. Donaldson, Honorary Secretary, read a letter, received from the Imperial Academy at Venice, acknowledging the receipt of the presented "Transactions of the Institute," and stating, that it was the intention of the Academy to have a translation made of the Essays into Italian; and to publish designs by native artists. A letter was also read from a Society at Manchester, requesting the establishment of a correspondence on matters of interest within the scope of the Institute. The Secretary also stated, that he had received other letters from various parts of the country, suggesting the establishment of branch societies in connection with the incorporated Institute. Various presents were announced; in particular, specimens of stones from the Eyam quarries in Derbyshire, and from Mr. Barry, the various sorts which he had used in the new grammar school at Birmingham. A large folio volume, containing ninetyone original drawings by Panini, Bibiena, and other Italian artists, including a design for a candelabrum by Benvenuto Cellini, was presented by Sir John Drummond Stewart, through Mr. Barry. veral of the subjects are designs for ceilings and dramatic scenes; some few are views of existing buildings; in particular, the Basilica of St. Peter, lighted for a solemn service, performed by the sove. Se |