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varied results of Mr. Cunningham's literary life need not here be 

 detailed. He subsequently became connected with Sir Francis 

 Chantrey, in whose workroom he acted as manager and superinten- 

 dant. Called thus to intimate association with the most elevated in 

 art, all his subsequent literary works had for object, more or less, 

 its illustration, and his final labour, concluded but a few days be- 

 fore his death, was the life of his countryman and friend, Sir David 

 Wilkie. Mr. Cunningham was elected an honorary member of this 

 Academy on the score of his various literary merits. 



" The death of Professor Heeren of Gottingen is felt through 

 Europe as the removal of one of the brightest luminaries of classical 

 literature. A reputation, already brilliant, bequeathed to him by 

 his father, received additional lustre from his elaborate investiga- 

 tions into the commerce and social condition of the nations of an- 

 tiquity. He was appointed first Professor of Philosophy, and after- 

 wards of History, in the University of Gottingen ; and his decease 

 in the past year has added another to the crowd of illustrious dead, 

 by whose memory that seat of learning is rendered sacred." 



" Our recollection of those members whom we have lost from 

 the ordinary roll of the Academy during the past year is yet so fresh, 

 the time that has elapsed since they assisted at our meetings is so 

 short, that the notice, necessarily so brief, that can be here made of 

 their career must be imperfect, and may appear unjust. In the in- 

 stances, however, of two eminent members, whose recent loss we 

 all deplore, the Eight Rev. the Lord Bishop of Meath, and the Hon. 

 Justice Foster, it may be said, that although numbering them among 

 its members, this Academy was not the scene of their labours or 

 their glory ; devoted to the pursuit of most important and engross- 

 ing professions, in which by their varied talents they attained the 

 highest dignities, time was not available for the prosecution of any 

 of those objects which this Academy has more especially in view. 

 Neither contributed to our Transactions, but the purposes of this 

 Institution, and its progress, were always subjects of their warm 

 approbation and support. 



" Mr. Bowles, a young member of the Academy, must be deeply 

 regretted, as from his extensive knowledge of languages, and the 

 enlightened assiduity with which he was, up to the period of his 



