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In stature, he was tall and portly, and altogether worthy 
to be classed with the greatest and most memorable of kings : 
yes, it may be added, of warrior kings ambitious of conquest, 
and who seek for glory, not in the cultivation of the arts of 
peace, in the moral and intellectual improvement of their 
species, but in the clash of arms; in the ‘‘ pomp, pride, and 
circumstance” of war. Of Magnus it may truly be said, that 
he was a scourge to his race, that his daring projects were 
fraught with misery and ruin to thousands of his countrymen 
as well as to himself. To him how justly may be applied 
the reflections of a great moralist on ‘the vanity of human 
wishes,”* as exemplified in the inglorious termination of ano- 
ther Scandinavian prince’s career in a subsequent age! 
“‘ Did no subverted empire mark his end ? 
Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? 
Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? 
His fall was destined to a barren strand, 
A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; 
He left a name at which the world grew pale, 
To point a moral, or adorn a tale.” 
Dr. Aquilla Smith read a notice of Irish Tradesmen’s 
Tokens, intended as an Addenda to his List published in the 
Proceedings, vol. iv. Appendix, p. xxvii. 
Dr. Lyons read a further notice of his researches on His- 
tolysis. 
<¢ Since the date of my former communication I have been 
engaged with some further researches on Histolysis, which, 
while they confirm generally the results I had then arrived at, 
have led me to the observation of phenomena still more com- 
plicated and more highly interesting. The deposit and matu- 
ration of the ova of insects, and the development of various 
forms of animalcules in decaying structures, are phenomena 
* Johnson’s Imitation of the 10th Satire of Juvenal. 
