Art of the Foundry among the Antients. 347 



an intermediate species between the lily and plumose encri- 

 nus. The specimen of which 1 speak is numbered 924 in 

 the brief catalogue which is delivered at the museum. 



From another specimen in the same collection, marked 

 No. 950, I also acknowledge having derived very consi- 

 derable information respecting the structure of that won- 

 derful lost animal the tortoise encrinus. 



Having no reason for concealing any of the motives which 

 induce me to trouble you with this request, I do not hesi- 

 tate to avow that one of these is a wish to call the attention 

 of the curious, as well as scientific, to the most complete 

 collection of British natural history which has ever yet been 

 formed; a museum, not confined to any one particular 

 branch, but comprehending alike the three great depart- 

 ments of nature, zoological, botanical, and mineral produc- 

 tions of the island, upon the grandest scale in)aginable. It 

 will not be too much to say that this museum, from the sci- 

 ence evinced in its arrangement, independent of its import- 

 ance as a collection of choice and valuable specimens, must, 

 to those desirous of such knowledge, prove a most instruc- 

 tive school, and afford an inexhaustible fund of information 

 to all those who think the natural history of their own coun- 

 try worth attendnig to. 



I am, sir. 



Your most obedient servant, 



James Parkinson. 



Hoxton-square, 

 Sept. 16, 1807. 



LVI. Essay Upon the Art of the Foundry among the An- 

 tients : with some Remarks upon the celebrated Horses of 

 Chio, now brought from Venice to Paris. By M. Seitz. 



[Continued from p. 203.] 



Art of Founding among the Romans. 



The Romans were as little skilled in the founding of me- 

 tals as in all the other imitative arts. The Etruscans, who 

 founded their statues under the kings, were employed in 



the 



