chat) with any peculiar marks of distinc tion or regret. His name occurs in the 42d vol. p. 343, only among the dry items of necrology. In the 6th vol. I find his name in the Committee of Managers of the Society for the Encouragement of Learning;' in the interval between these volumes, it does not occur in a manner worth the least notice.

[To be concluded in No. 18.]

Royal Institution.

Mr. DAVY's fourteenth lecture was on the ocean, lakes, rivers, and springs, and the general chemical agency of water in the system of nature. Mr. DAVY gave an account of the great natural arrangement of this fluid in the different parts of the globe, and its various impregnations. The sea is salter towards the equator than towards the poles, and the inland lakes in the warm countries are

generally much impregnated with saline matter; and these circumstances are of much importance in preventing the putrefactive process from going on in their

waters.

THE impregnations of springs are usually destroyed by the beds over which they pass, or the different ingredients neutralise each other, and water under common circumstances, becomes purer as it flows!

British Gallery.

215. Clovelly, on the Coast of North Devon.

W. Daniell.

THIS picture seems painted faithfully from the objects which presented themselves in the landscape before the artist's eye; but the effect is rather too shining for nature. The touch, however, is vigorous and scientific.

249. A Scene on the Rhine, with a Float of Timber. R. Freebairn. SUPERIOR to Mr. Freebairn's large. picture; where the effect is weakened by too minute a finish. The present is a beautiful little bit of landscape; the water and boats are happily touched.

Purchased by Edward Rogers, Esq.

253. A Landscape.

S. Drummond.

THIS may be called a stiff and sombre painting, but there are parts about it extremely well executed. A depth of shadow, and freedom of handling, render it no uninteresting picture to the connoisseur. The figures in the foreground are well conceived and executed.

255. A Landscape.

S. W. Reynolds.

WHAT, some will remark, can there possibly be interesting in this dull composition-where clouds, smoke, smoke, and dust, are all indiscriminately convolved! I answer, much: an astonishing freedom of pencilling, and considerable knowledge of the chiaro oscuro, may be disco

vered in this picture. To a young beginner it is full of instruction.

259. A Landscape, with a Waterfall in the Distance. B. Barker. UNDOUBTEDLY this is, upon the whole, a fine picture; the background, in which a cataract tumbles from a lofty mountain, losing itself in mist, is the best executed feature in the landscape. The foreground, especially the cattle, wants force, because nature has not been accurately studied. The cows are not happily executed.

Purchased by Sir Oswald Moseley, Bart.

265. A Landscape with Sheep.

C. Cramer.

A VERY beautiful little picture. The shepherd's boy, the cattle, and particularly the back ground, evince much taste and accuracy of observation.

Purchased by the Marquis of Stafford.

THIS is much superior to the preceding picture of Mr. Barker: and may be called a grand and beautiful composition. Purchased by E. Loveden Loveden, Esq. M.P.

270. A Landscape and Figures, from Gesner's Death of Abel.

Rich. Corbould.

ON close examination this will appear to be a scientific composition. The branches of the tree, so prominent in the foreground, are touched with a freedom and force truly admirable: and though nature seems to put on, in this region, a sombre hue, she apologises, by the magnificence of her productions, for the want of harmonious tints. The figures are very interesting; and the atmosphere is well managed.

Purchased by Lord Ribblesdale.

274. Interior of a Wood,

P. Reinagle.

THERE is an air of solitary grandeur about this picture, which cannot fail to interest those who are fond of retired