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Mr. William E. A. Axo^i, F.S.S., exhibited a volume 
entitled “Gildas Salvianus By Bichard Baxter. London, 
1656.” On the title-page was the autograph of Henry 
Newcome,M.A., the founder of Honcomformity in Manchester, 
and predecessor of the Rev. W. Gaskell, M.A., as minister 
of the original chapel in Cross-street. Newcome has care- 
fully corrected the errata in the book, which he had evidently 
read with care. His diary contains the following charac- 
teristic notice of the book : — 1692, “November 21st. I read, 
as I had time, in ‘Gildas Salvianus,’ which did greatly trouble 
me to see how sadly I fall short of what a minister of Christ 
should be.” — Autobiog. of Henry Neiocome, M.A. Ed. by 
B. Parkinson, D.D. Cheetham Soc. 1852. 2^- 
“ On a Portrait of Tycho Brahe.” By Samuel Crompton^ 
M.H. 
Dr. Ckompton exhibited a portrait, in oil, of Tycho Brahe, 
and gave some particulars respecting the known portraits of 
Brahe. This picture is on canvas, and is 3 feet and 3f 
inches high, and 2 feet and 6 J inches wide. It represents 
a man of ruddy complexion, standing and looking forwards. 
He is bareheaded ; has little hair and that short on the head 
of a yellowish colour verging to red. He has very long 
moustaches and a short beard. He wears a wide ruff round 
the neck edged with wide open lace. He wears a black 
jacket buttoned down to the waist with gold buttons, and 
he is decorated with the Danish Order of the Elephant and 
Castle, suspended by a gold chain from his neck, with a 
portrait in profile of the king in front of the body of the 
elephant, and below the elephant the letters MHZGA. He 
has a broad belt of gold round the waist. The right hand 
is nearly at a right angle with the body and rests on his 
side, and on its little finger there is a curious twisted ring 
of five turns. In his left hand he holds a pair of gloves; 
and on the left forefinger there is a large signet ring. There 
is also a ring on the fourth and another on the fifth finger. 
He has wristbands edged with open lace. 
