360 Professor Hausmann on the Comjposition of the Ancient 
serving the fisheries during the close season. Mr Wilson says^ 
“ at this very time we are expending about L. 600 a-year for 
the protection of the Tweed, and to very little purpose p. 11. 
Premiums should be offered to encourage fishers to destroy seals^ 
grampuses, and even porpoises, as the latter probably devour 
the fry. 
Judging from the evidence contained in this Report, we have 
no hesitation in asserting, that were the limits of close time deter- 
mined hy the habits of the fish^ stake-nets erected in suitable sta- 
tions, obstructions removed, and poaching checked, our rivers 
and shores may be made to yield four times more salmon than 
they do at present, and the increase of the breed be promoted. 
We trust the Committee will resume its labours this session of 
Parliament ; and, should the results be as interesting as the 
present Report, we may feel disposed to lay a digest of the evi- 
dence again before our readers. 
Feb. 17. 1825. 
Art. XVIII. — An Essay on the Composition of the Ancient 
Earthen Vases ^ commonly hnown by the name (f Etruscan. 
Read before the Royal Society of Gottingen. By Profes- 
sor Hausmann. — (Translated from the Latin ^). 
The ancient painted vases, chiefly dug up in many districts 
of Lower Italy, have excited much interest among the learned 
and the admirers of ancient art. While the elegance and di- 
versity of their forms, together with the singularity and boldness 
of their figures, delight the eye of the beholder, the variety of 
design and subject in the paintings with which they are deco- 
rated, equally conduce to the illustration of mythology, history 
and ancient art. The investigation of these paintings has al- 
ready contributed in no small degree to improve our knowledge 
of antiquity ; nor has the imitation of the forms of those vases 
been less a source of profit as applied to the art of pottery. 
* A copy of this interesting memoir, published by the Royal Society of Got- 
tingen, was sent by the Author for insertion in the .Tournal, 
