259 Ant'iaidties. — Lalwide Senior. — Lectures. 



The persevering industry with which Mr. Groombridge 

 applies himself lo the cultivation of so useful a science as 

 asirononiv, merits the highest cormiiendatiou. 



P. S. Just as our work was goingto press, Mr. Firniinger 

 favoured us with another observation by Mr. Croombridge, 

 as follows : 



. April 27th, at 9^ SG"" \-6\ mean time, right ascension 

 11'^ 56^ 2'; declinaiion 1'2° 33' I9" N. 



AN 1 lauiTIES. 



There has been lately discovered in the collection of the 

 duke of Buccleughj a curious manuscript of the statutes ot 

 the Orders of the Garter and the Bath, with various old 

 drawings; among the latter are portraits of Richard III. and 

 of Anne, his queen. These drawings prove to be the ori- 

 ginals from v^'hich the lale lord Orford's outlines were taken, 

 as represented in his " Historic Doubts," and it is re- 

 markable, that the above learned nobleman was always of 

 oninion that the original was in existence. (Historic 

 Doujjts, page 104.) 



Mr. Sancho, of the Mews Gate, has presented the pub- 

 li.;, viih a fac simile of these interesting portraits. 



LALANDE SENIOR. 



This a:^tronomcr died at Paris, on the 7lh of the present 



month (April), m the 75th year of his age. By his \\ ill he 



ordered his body to be dissected, and the skeleton to be 



tllaced in the Museum of Natural History^ His relations, 



;\vever, regardless of this ridiculous injuncticn, buried 



m a few days after his death. Plis funeral was attended 



v the members of the French National Institute. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The bu.^t of I/Alembert has been placed in the hall of 

 ;;o Nntioua! Institute by order of the emperor Napoleon. 

 A Swcdi.-h naturalist (chamberlain Liung) has discovered 

 . s;ribllcst anin)al of the order of mammalia that has yrt 

 ■'.icn seen; he calls this animal Sorex caiikulatus, and it is 

 kind of earth mouse. 



LECTURES. 



