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In the right upper corner of the picture (that is, to B.’s 
right,), there is a curious emblematic design, consisting of a 
round tapering column springing from a square base, around 
which at its foot are waves. Over the monument is a canopy 
suspended by a strong chain, a few links only of which are 
visible, the top being lost in clouds, and the chain itself has 
flames playing round it. Two JEolic heads (one on each 
side) are represented as blowing towards the canopy and 
column. Lower down, and to the right and left of the 
column, are two hands (one on each side) holding each a jug 
from which water flows. Clouds and lightning surround the 
background, the wrists of the hands holding the jugs, and 
also the jBolic heads. Bound the monument is a label not 
entirely decipherable with the words: “Stans (tectus ?) in 
solido;” then follows an indistinct word and “igne e • tunda” 
(sic.) “Igne et unda” was no doubt intended. In the 
left upper corner, in large and distinct letters, is this inscrip- 
tion: “Effigies Tychonis Brahe, Otton. Da. anno 50 com- 
pleto quo post diutinum in patria exilium libertati desideratse 
divino provisu restitutus est.” 
Dr. Crompton pointed out, by references to Gassendi’s 
“ Tychonis Brahe Yita, 4to, Hagoe Comit. 1656,” that the 
inscription referred to Brahe’s departure from Denmark, and 
that the “exilium in patria” was an allusion to his residence 
on his island of Huenna, in his Observatory, away from the 
court for twenty years. The emblematic picture evidently 
implies that nothing (not all the elements) could destroy 
the monument he had erected to his reputation by his 
observations ; and that that they would be protected by 
Providence. 
Dr. Crompton exhibited two other engraved portraits of 
Tycho : the first of them engraved by Meurs, in which he is 
surrounded by heraldic coats of arms, and with an inscrip- 
tion to the effect that the portrait represented him on the 
completion of his 40th year in 1586. The second engraving 
was by Haas, of Copenhagen, and is without a date. In 
