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pleafure to be more intimately acquainted with him, 
are in doubt, which they fhould give the preference 
to, his knowlege and affiduity, or his piety and fin- 
cerity, and his good qualities in general ; and which 
is mod: to be lamented, the lofs, which the Academy 
has fudained, or that, which his family mud: fuffer. 
He was born the i ith of July, 1 7 1 1, at Pernau, after 
the deceafe of his father, Mr. William Richman, 
treafurer of the king of Sweden, . who was carried 
off by the plague, at the clofe of the year 1710. 
PTaving laid the foundation of his learning at the 
Gymnadum at Revel, he profecuted his dudies at 
the Univerfities of Halle and lena, where he always 
made the mathematics and philofophy the principal 
objedls of them. He was made a member of the 
Imperial Academy in the year ; extraordinary 
Profedbr in 1741 ; and at lad, in I74y, ordinary 
Profedbr of experimental philofophy. In his later 
years he married his prefent difconfolate widow, by 
whom he has had fix children, three of whom died 
before him, but two fons and a daughter furvive 
him. 
XVI [. Account of a Roman infeription' 
found at Malton m Yorkfliire, in the Tear 
1753. By John Ward, LL. D. Rhet. 
Prof Grelh. a?td V. P. R. S. 
Read March 20,/ g 'HIS infcription was dug up in the 
j[_ Pye Pits, over againd the lodge at 
Malton, a town fituated on the river Derwent, in 
tlie. 
