.846 Vresejit State of the 



they show that, by a prvoper selection, this breed may soon 

 tecome equal in carcase to the best South -Downs. From 

 the size oi the two-tooth rams, no one will hesitate to con- 

 clude that wethers of this breed, at two-shear, may easily 

 be made to reach 16 or iSlb. per quarter. 



I beg the society's pardon for having so long intruded 

 myself on their attention. I shall probably give them little 

 trouble of this kind in future; but as the subject, at this 

 time especially, is of great importance to the commercial 

 interests of the country, I request that they would permit 

 the committee to examine the several propositions which I 

 have stated, and report on them, separately, at the general 

 meeting to morrow. 



I have the honour to be, 

 Gentlemen, 

 Your obedient servant, 



C. H. Parry. 

 To the President and Memlers of the 

 Bath Agricultural Society. 



XLII. Present State of the Art of Painting in France. By 

 T. C. Brunn Neergaerdt, Member of the French In- 

 siitute*. 



X ROFESSOR FioRiLLo published at Gottingen, some time 

 ago, the third volume of his History of the Art of Painting, 

 which contains that branch of the subject relating to Franc?. 

 The author says in his preface, that •' at first he only 

 thought of speaking of the old French school, and that it 

 was too soon to describe the modern one." I am not of his 

 opinion; I think that the modern school has already pro- 

 duced, and is daily producing, artists ox sufficient merit to 

 entitle them to be publicly noticed. I am also of opinion 

 that M. Fiorillo would have done well to have waited until 



* From. a. memoir entitled " Correction! et Additions pnur vn Oiwrage dc 

 M. Fiorillo sur I'Art de Drssiii en France depuis son Rctabtiisament jusau'a nos 

 Jours." Read at the French National Institute, M.iy U, 180P. 



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