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 to the elder Daedalus and to Attalus, the celebrated colossal statue 

 of the Aniyclajan Apollo, and the lions still existing over the gate 

 of Mycenae. 



" In tracing the progress of Grecian sculpture, the author en- 

 deavoured to shew that it was possible to divide it into schools 

 and epochs, in a manner similar to that employed by the Italian 

 writers on art to discriminate the different schools of painting, by 

 peculiarities observable in each. From the notices of their sculp- 

 ture which have reached us, and from existing remains, he con- 

 ceives that we may distinguish the following great schools of 

 sculpture : 



" 1. The Egypto-Grecian. 



" 2. The Ionian, including the Samian, Chian, and Rhodian. 



" 3. The' Sicyonian, including the Corinthian. 



" 4. The ^ginetan. 



" 5. The Graeco-Italian, comprehending the Hetruscan, Magna- 

 Grecian, and Sicilian. 



" 6. The Attic. 



" 7. The Graeco-Egyptian, or period of the Ptolemies. 



" In this part of his essay the author briefly sketched the two 

 first schools. The Graeco-Egyptian is characterized by severity 

 of style, constrained and little-varied attitudes ; with the chief 

 care bestowed on the heads and extremities, while the bodies and 

 draperies are meagre and ungraceful. The Ionian school first 

 began to give more freedom to the attitudes, to separate the limbs, 

 and give energy to the figures. In its later periods it arrived at 

 hifi-her excellence in the most difficult branches of the art, the 

 union of anatomical precision with grace, and noble composition 

 in grouping with the utmost energy of action, as is well seen in 

 the Venus from the Bath of the Pontifical collection, and the Lao- 

 coon; which are later productions of the Ionian sshool. 



" It was this school which introduced into Greece itself the first 

 great improvements on the Egypto-Grecian style." 



3. Account of Earthquakes felt in Scotland during the Autumn 

 and Winter of 1839. By David Milne, Esq. 



" I. The first part of the paper described the number and in- 

 tensity of the shocks felt between the 3d October 1839 and 13th 

 April 1840, the point (situated near Comrie) from which they 

 emanated, and the distance to which they extended. 



" II. The next part of the paper was occupied with an account 

 of the effects, both physical and moral, produced by the shocks. 



