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THE HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARY & NATURALIST. 



made Director of the Museum at Rouen, after which 

 he spent six years in the porcelain manufactory at 

 Sevres, where he painted pictures frr other artists to 

 copy on the manufactured work. He received a gold 

 medal at the exhibition of 1819, the decoration of the 

 Legion of Honour in 1852, besides medals and an 

 annual Government pension for the discovery of a 

 new kind of canvas tor painting on. Amongst his 

 known works are at Nantes " An incident in the 

 Battle of Navarino " (ordered by the Government), 

 41 The Duke and Duchess of Berri returning to France 

 on board English frigates "; at Rochelle, 

 " The Capture of the Kent by La Confiance "; 

 at Marseilles, " A view of the Straits of Furnes " ; 

 at Rochefort, "The frigate Virginie attacking an 

 English squadron 1 '; at Rouen, " Cod-fishing on the 

 banks of Newfoundland "; and at Versailles, "The 

 Battle of Duguenes." He, at the close of his life, 

 painted a large picture for the French Government of 

 "Napoleon I quitting Elba for France." Jazet 

 engraved many of his pictures. He himself studied 

 aquatint under Debucourt, designing and engraving 

 64 views of French, and 40 views of foreign ports. 

 He published in the Patne newspaper the " Voyages 

 of Louis Garneray" and the " Captivity of Louis 

 Garneray." These works were afterwards re-pub- 

 lished in book form, profusely illustrated by himself. 

 He died at Paris in October, 1857. His brother 

 Auguste was likewise a somewhat celebrated artist. 



THE HAMPSHIRE INDEPENDENT, May 10, 1890. 



WEATHER REPORT FOR THE WEEK. 



From the meteorological register made at the Ordnance 

 Survey Office, Southampton, under the direction of Col. Sir 

 Chas. Wilson, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., F.R.S., R.E. Lat. 50 

 54' 59" N. ; long. i 24' o" W. ; height above sea, 84 feet. 

 Observers Sergt. T. Chambers, R.E., and Mr. J. T. Cook. 



WEATHER IN APRIL. 



Proverbial April weather has marked the present 

 month, sunshine and showers, though the latter have 

 prevailed over the average. The total rainfall has 

 been 2'66 ; and the average of the preceding ten years 

 i '93 inches. Since January we have had 8-57, the 

 average for the same time being 9-22 inches. Rain 

 fell on thirteen days, and ten days are entered as 

 " fine sunshine." Allusion was made last month to 

 the leafing of the ash and the oak ; a good deal of 

 discussion has taken place in some magazines respect- 

 ing it, with very conflicting opinions, most maintain- 

 ing that the ash being before the oak is followed by 

 wet. There may not be much in it either way. This 

 year, without any doubt, the oak is before the ash, 

 oaks at present being in pretty full leaf, and the ash 

 hardly bursting. It may be interesting to note the 

 weather that follows. 



The barometer has not shown any great fluctuation, 

 but has been rather under the average. The highest 

 was 30^40, and the lowest 29-23 inches. It was 3oin. 

 and upwards on eleven days. The temperature has 

 been somewhat cold, especially at night ; frosts 

 occurred on nine nights, the lowest being 27deg. on 

 the night of the 4th, and the highest 64deg. on the 

 I5th ; it was 6odeg. and above on six days. 



Fordingbridge. T. WESTLAKE. 



*Black bulb in vacuo. 



HAMPSHIRE NOTES ON NATURAL HISTORY. 

 The Rev. E. D. Lear, of Blackmoor Vicarage, 

 Petersfield, writes to the Field as follows: "On 

 April 21 I looked into a wren's nest which I had found 

 last year in an Irish yew in Lord Selborne's garden, 

 and was astonished to find a dead wren sitting in a 

 perfectly natural position. It had plainly been there 

 for some time, but there was no smell from it, and all 

 the feathers were still on the bird as if alive. In fact, 

 the only difference was the absence of the eyes and 

 the weight of the bird, which was so very little as to 

 prove that all the flesh had gone, having been eaten 

 probably by insects." " E.L.M.," of Winchester, 

 referring to an announcement of the cuckoo being 

 heard on April 23, writes in the same paper : " I 

 myself heard it on March 29, when there were several 

 people by, some of whom saw it, though I did not 

 myself." Mr. Arthur Royds, junr., of Droxford, says 

 the earliest arrivals of summer migrants as noted by 

 him there this season are : Swallow, 6th April ; 

 cuckoo, i2th ; blackcap, i3th ; house-martin, 151!! ; 

 and nightingale, i6th. A gentleman at Droxford 

 noticed some of the swallow tribe, probably sand- 

 martins, towards the end of March. 



A MEONSTOKE TRAGEDY 112 YEARS AGO. 

 Not long ago I purchased at one of our old book- 

 stalls an old Evangelical Magazine, in which is 



