38 Physiognomy of the Moons Surface. 



college ; and the unequalled collection in the Capitoline Mu- 

 seum would furnish casts of several hundreds of the most dis- 

 tinguished characters of antiquity. * 



Thus the highly gifted though poor student would have an 

 opportunity of seeing and studying fac-similes of those foreign 

 monuments of ancient art, which the wealthy alone can travel 

 so far to behold ; and to the advancement of art throughout 

 the kingdom and the improvement of our native school, would 

 be added a general increase in classical knowledge and correct 

 ideas of the ancients, only to be derived from such monuments ; 

 — and thus taste, science, literature, and art, would be equally 

 benefited and extended throughout our happy country. 



Survey of the Surface of the Moon. By Wm. Beer and Dr 

 J. H. Madler of Berlin.* 



1. Physiognomy of the Moon's Surface. 2. Supposititious Architec- 

 tural Remains in the Moon. 3. Do Rivers occur in the Moon ? 

 4. Lunar Atmosphere. 5. Concerning some observations which 

 appear to indicate the existence of a Lunar Atmosphere. 6. Non- 

 existence in the Moon of Clouds, Seas, Sfc. ?• Light and Colour 

 of the Moon. 8. Physical Remarks upon the Eclipses of the 

 Moon and of the Sun, relating principally to the appearances 

 which the former luminary presents during these i7iteresting 

 phenomena. 9« On the effect of the Earth's light upon the Moon. 

 10. On the Meteorological influence of the Moon. 



1. Physiognomy of the Moon's Surface. — Even with the na- 

 ked eye we may distinguish upon the surface of the moon, espe- 

 cially when full, many grey markings of different sizes, some 

 of which are very conspicuously distinguished from the more 

 brilliant parts, whilst others gradually merge into them. The 

 name of Seas was conferred on these markings by Hevelius, 



• The above article contains a condensed view of some of the leading sec- 

 tions of the great work lately published at Berlin, under the title of " Der 

 Mond nach seinen kosmischen und individuellen verhaltnissen Od. allgem. 

 rergleichende Selenographie. Nebst 5 lith. Taf. gr. 4. Von Wm. Beer and 

 Dr J. H. Madler." Bibliotheque Universelle, February and March 1838. 



