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in vvliirh the Tartars, and olhor barbarous nations caught 

 and tanKMl him, whioh was followed by a variety of anec- 

 dotes showing the aftaciunont of the Arab for his Horse. 

 The History was then given of the Arab and his iutrodur tion 

 into England, with a slight notice of the Turkish, Persian, 

 Swedish, Finland, Norwegian, and Iceland Horses, He 

 then treated of the English Horse from the earliest period of 

 our History to the present time, its uses, habits, &c. , and 

 noticed the commencement of the custom of racing, with 

 some very interesting particulars as to this sport in other 

 Countries. 



May 4. — The Rev. H. Lacey delivered a Lecture on the 

 varieties of the Human Complexion. He glanced at the 

 different castes or varieties under which might be arranged 

 the several tribes of our species, noticing the Caucasian, 

 Mongolian, Ethiopian, American, Malay, and other varieties ; 

 mentioned many interesting particulars in several of them, and 

 combatted the hypothesis of writers on the subject ; contend- 

 ing that no primary, substantial, or satisfactory cause, could 

 be assigned for many of the differences observable in the 

 characters and varieties of the Human Species, which 

 were influenced by customs and manners, and by physical 

 and moral causes. 



May 11 and 18.— Mr. William Brent delivered two 

 Lectures on Ornithology, which were devoted entirely to the 

 (ienus Columbia, or Pigeon tribe. After enumerating the 

 various sorts, both British and Foreign, in a wild state, he 

 entered into a full description of the varieties of the domestic 

 species. The beauties and defects of that singularly plumaged 

 bird the Almond Tumbler, were fully explained ; as also 

 the method of training and flying that far-famed Pigeon, 

 the Carrier. He slightly noticed the other varieties, and 

 concluded by giving a concise detail of the wonderful pro- 

 perty possessed by the Trumpeter, viz. of imitating the 

 sound of a trumpet. 



May 25. — Mr. Marten delivered his concluding Lecture on 

 Ethics. It contained a review of that system which sup- 

 poses all moral sentiment to consist in an original feeling of 

 human nature. This feeling the Lecturer considered to be 

 universal, and in no instance, ever totally effaced from the 

 human mind. Three limitations however were made to this 

 universality — passion was said to blind, defective information 

 to mislead, association to prejudice the moral judgment. Vir- 

 tue and vice were considered to be terms expressive only of 

 the relations of things — virtue or vice was proved to be not 

 in the action but in the agent, an agent acting in a certain 

 manner according to a certain intention. 



