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rej^ulation in armour, by which every horseman who went to battle was to have his 

 helmet, breast-plate, gauntlets, cuisses and jambes, all of iron, a precaution taken on 

 account of the disadvantage which their cavalry had suifered from their light armour 

 at the battle of Catina, so that what was adopted by them to supply a deficiency was 

 assumed by the soldiers of Northern Europe as a relief from tiieir superabundance 

 of defensive armour." 



To Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, amongst other eminent writers 

 on antiquity, it appears that the author has been particularly in- 

 debted 3 and the history of ancient armour, with the wood-cut 

 illustrations, is chiefly taken from that learned gentleman's col- 

 lection, at Goodrich Court, in Herefordshire. The costume of the 

 original inhabitants of the British islands, and the critical inquiry 

 into ancient arms and armour, are acknowledged also to have 

 been derived from the same luminous source. 



Having extended this article far beyond our prescribed limits, 

 we can add little more than our testimony to the usefulness of the 

 work, and to the ability and patience of the compiler. Previously 

 to the publication of a second edition, however, we would recom- 

 mend a careful revision of the pages, for however we may admire, 

 as antiquaries, the style and m.atter of the composition, we are not 

 such admirers of the old school as to fall in love with disjointed 

 sentences, or with loose, careless, and incorrect phraseology. We 

 ought to mention that the wood-cuts with which this small book 

 is interspersed are executed with much ability. 



An Introductory Lecture on the Anatomy and Functions of the 

 Nervous System, of Man and the Inferior Animals, delivered ex- 

 tempore before the Membert: of the Literary and Scientifc Insti- 

 tution, Worcester, on Monday, May l^th, 1834, by E. A. Turley; 

 {published at the request of the Committee) from the short- 

 hand Notes of Mr. William Pare. 



The subject of this lecture is one not confined to medical and 

 scientific men only, but from the extensive diffusion of science 

 within the last few years, has become familiar to almost all classes 

 of society — Mr. Turley has therefore very properly disincumbered 

 it from as much technicality as possible, and rendered it clear to 

 the comprehension of all orders and degrees of men. Perhaps the 

 best eulogy that can be given to the lecturer is the announce- 

 ment of the fact that the applause of the listening auditory was 

 unbounded — and to mark their sense of the gratification they had 

 received, they unanimously requested that Mr. Turley would take 

 the trouble to commit to paper the essence of his lecture, for the 

 purpose of its being printed for the use of the members and the 

 public generally. In this solicitation that gentleman obligingly 

 acquiesced — however a short-hand writer having been present, the 

 notes were taken from that source — and the pamphlet is now to 

 be looked at as a scientific work subject to the ordeal of critical 

 investigation — hastily put together, it is true, for we beheve it 

 was in the press a few days after its delivery — but literary scru- 



