76 Account of a Cinerary Vase. 



protection of Mr. Gropius, consul for Austria and Sweden, re- 

 questing him to send it to England by the first opportunity 

 that might ofFer. When I returned to Athens from Asia Minor, 

 in the following June, the vase was still in the possession of Mr. 

 Gropius, the opportunities of transport from Athens being very 

 rare. On finally leaving Athens, I took leave of the vase and 

 of several cases of casts, which I had made from the ornamented 

 parts of the temples, without any very sanguine expectation of 

 ever seeing them again. However, as I afterwards found, Mr. 

 Gropius succeeded in sending them safe to Smyrna, whence Mr. 

 Werry, the English consul, whom I had previously apprized of 

 the probability of their coming, sent them to England, and 

 there, on my return in September, 1821, I had the satisfaction 

 to find they had safely arrived six months previously. 



The plate represents the vase as lying on the edge of the 

 depository from Avhich it was raised, with its contents partly 

 removed ; some fragments of bones, and the golden band, are 

 on the ground. The Acropolis of Athens, Mount Anchesmos, 

 and part of Hymettus, in the distance. — (See Plate I.J 



Art, VII. On the Corrections to he applied in Barometrical 

 Mensuration, for the Effects of Atmospheric Vapour, by 

 means of the Hj/gromcter. By J. F. Daniell, Esq. 

 F. R.S. and M.R.I. 



Ever since the celebrated and important experiment of Tor- 

 ricelli, the attention of some of the greatest philosophers has 

 been drawn in succession to the interesting problem of the 

 mensuration of heights by means of the barometer. The most 

 laborious experiments have been undertaken for the improve- 

 ment of the practical part of the operation, and the utmost 

 refinements of mathematical calculation have been employed in 

 the perfecting of its theory. To the former, M. De Luc, General 

 Roy, and Sir George Shuckburgh, have pre-eminently contri- 

 buted, while the powerful minds of Halley, Newton, Playfair, 



